Syntax isn't everything but ......
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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Makes me want to jank my head off.
Is it worse than Clojure?
Love to see the TS and python "experts" in the comments having no idea what's going on.
Clojure is awesome and is meant to be used like this. Clojure is a Hosted language specification, meant to be implemented on different runtimes. That's why we have clojurescript, jvm clojure, babashka and jank.
Jank seems like an amazing and exciting idea to have clojure with higher performance and smaller footprint of cpp, and also it's ecosystem.
Thank you, my human language parser is not fully operational at the moment so I actually appreciated this summary!
Why?
jank is a general-purpose programming language which embraces the interactive, value-oriented nature of Clojure as well as the desire for native compilation and minimal runtimes. jank is strongly compatible with Clojure and considers itself a dialect of Clojure.
Looks like they wanted Clojure to have a smaller runtime.
When I tried Clojure the endless Java stackstraces were a pain to debug.
One more of those revolutionary functional languages that fade over the course of 5 years?
like Haskell or Lisp?
idk if clojure has really faded though. some dialects have done well (jvm, js) and some haven't gotten much use (go, clr), but it feels like a reasonable path. there's a good chance you can tap into a decent chunk of the existing clj ecosystem too