Comment by cfiggers
13 hours ago
I wasn't aware of the Gloat project before this. It's a compiler that turns Clojure into native binaries by first transpiling to Glojure (which I'd also never heard of before this), which in turn targets Go. This is rather than using a GraalVM native image, which as I understand it is at this point the better-explored mechanism of doing that for JVM-based stuff (but has its own trade-offs).
Very cool!
I can see why people try this way: graalvm is limited outside the entreprise version, and it’s quite slow to compile with.
I think the aot compilation story on the JVM lacks fast tooling with good UX compared to go.