Comment by Jeaye

> Might I ask the author of Jank whether he knows about Clapp and if so, how will this project try to avoid getting stagnated?

I'm aware of Clasp and have spoken with drmeister about it in the early days of jank. Ultimately, jank and Clasp differ greatly, not only in that jank is Clojure and Clasp is Common Lisp, but also in their approach to C++ interop.

> If I recall correctly, compiling Clapp takes a full day, that gives not a good vibe.

I'm not sure about Clasp's compile times, but C++ is slow to compile, in general. The jank compiler itself builds from nothing in about 1 minute on my machine. We've yet to see how the jank compiler will handle large Clojure project, but I do expect it to be slower than Clojure JVM.

> In that post and comments we read that Clapp was 100x slower that sbcl

That's an old post, so I'd expect that Clasp is faster now. I can say that jank is not 100x slower than Clojure JVM, in my benchmarks.

> Perhaps I am just too old to be open to new dreams, anyway I hope the best to this project and I thank to Clojurists Together for supporting this project. It must be very intellectual rewarding to work in a project whose aim is to extend and improve your favorite computer language. But the journey will be no an easy one, that's for sure.

Thanks for the interest and kind words. It's not easy, but it's doable!