I've only just started looking at Clojure and I've been a little leery about the JVM as well (Windows/.Net guy). However, my experience so far has been pretty positive, and it's given me a reason to get more familiar with Emacs.
Additionally, there's a CLR version of Clojure as well [0] and I'm surprised that doesn't pop up very frequently. It seems to have a fairly active community around it as well [1]. I haven't looked into it yet, but I intend to once I'm more familiar with the JVM version.
[0] https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clojure-clr
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clojure-clr
A port of Clojure to the CLR, part of the Clojure project
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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ClojureCLR
This project is a native implementation of Clojure on the Common Language Runtime (CLR),
the execution engine of Microsoft's .Net Framework.
ClojureCLR is programmed in C# (and Clojure itself).
Goals
Implement a feature-complete Clojure on top of CLR
Stay as close as possible to the JVM implementation
Have some fun
Getting Started
ClojureCLR can either run as a a standalone application, or embedded as a library in .NET applications. See the
getting started guide for instructions on how to
install, run or integrate ClojureCLR.
Documentation
Most of the documentation for Clojure should be equally applicable to ClojureCLR. See the
ClojureCLR wiki and the articles under the docs directory
in this repository for documentation specific to the ClojureCLR project.
Community and Support
The #clr channel in the Clojurians Slack
The ClojureCLR category in Ask Clojure
ClojureCLR JIRA is used for issue tracking.
Note that creating issues in the Clojure JIRA requires signing a
contributor agreement. Minor issues might be easier to raise on Slack.
Libraries
Many of the standard libraries from JVM Clojure have CLR ports.
Other Resources
David Miller and Clojure on the CLR with @dmiller
Transform Microsoft Office Solutions into Cloud-savvy Linked Data Microservices With Clojure on .NET with @bcalco
License
Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved. The use and
distribution terms for this software are covered by the Eclipse
Public License 1.0 (http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php)
which can be found in the file epl-v10.html at the root of this
distribution. By using this software in any fashion, you are
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Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
4 sourcesClojureCLR: A Native Implementation of Clojure on Microsoft's .Net Framework
5 points · Open discussionSee the interop issues (https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr/wiki/Calling-generic-...) I alluded to here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19729618)
In Why did Clojure gain so much popularity?I think Clojure is actually cleaner - but that comes with the downsides of the JVM and .NET interop is a huge advantage
There is a dotnet implementation of Clojure if you're interested: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
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