A C# REPL in Clojure

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/craig/archive/2008/11/19/a-c-repl-in-clojure.aspx

by cstejerean • 18 years ago

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icey2• 18 years ago

This is pretty cool, but mostly because I'd never heard of IKVM.Net before (http://www.ikvm.net/).

babo• 18 years ago

He uses C# as a synonym for .net which is misleading. With F# it's way easier to get a proper .net REPL which is a great feature.

pietro• 18 years ago

PowerShell is a pretty cool REPL, and so is IronPython. There are quite a few options.

wingo• 18 years ago

I enjoyed this because I wasn't aware that Clojure could run on .NET (IKVM or otherwise). Thanks!

icey2• 18 years ago

Well, it used to be that Clojure targeted both .Net and the JVM. Now it just targets the JVM.

So... it can only run on .Net if it thinks it's talking to the JVM.

Does that make sense?

michaelneale• 18 years ago

Scala was the same. Its now really JVM only - but IKVM does an amazing job in running things on .net if you need to (last I tried, which was quite a few years ago, the ikvm slowdown was single digit percentage, very impressive, over "native" .net code).

felideon• 18 years ago

Lisp (Clojure) running on .NET (IKVM) sounds awesome. I wonder how practical it is.

slashcom• 18 years ago

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...

According to that thread, it's a good 2-8x slower. :(

A C# REPL in Clojure

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