dundalek / jo_clojure

Fast Embeddable Clojure in C/C++

jo_clojure

Author Jon Olick. @JonOlick on twitter.

A Fast, Embeddable Clojure language implementation in C/C++.

Just started the project, nothing is done, everything is messy. Will clean up before version 1.0.

The near-term goal is to re-make clojure in an embedable form.

The long-term goal is to add types/functions for machine learning, matrices, tensors, etc...

Currently:

• Native implementation of entire core lib.
• Parses code into native structures (AST), then executes. Essentially interpreted - though does some clever things here and there.
• Lazy sequences
• Startup time is ridiculously fast by comparison
• Implementations of persistent lists, vectors, hash-map, hash-set.
• Software Transactional Memory (STM)
• Atoms
• IO

Differences:

• IO is very different than clojure's IO cause I didn't like the clojure IO functions AT ALL.
• Software Transactional Memory (STM) now works seamlessly with Atoms - thus refs are only useful if you need the history feature?
• Not entirely complete implementation (yet). There is a LOT to do.
• See TODO.md for information on what is left to do.

Future:

• Compile to C/C++ code so you can compile a native executable.
• Native types and operations for Matrices and Tensors.
• Automatic Parallelization.

Compile/install:

Unix: Run make to build and make install to install to /usr/local/bin (might require sudo)

Windows: Run c.bat for Microsoft C/C++ compiler. Run make for mingw gcc.