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A personal twist on the original Clojure interpreter and linter, slightly mad, Go-ing places

5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2026-04-29 · latest 2026-10-06

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  1. I keep wanting to use LISP, which is kind of why https://github.com/rcarmo/gi uses https://github.com/rcarmo/go-joker , my IR-accelerated Clojure interpreter (which can also do WASM, and thus isolates). I end up using Go for mostly…
  2. Funny to see it took the same IR approach as I did with https://github.com/rcarmo/go-joker - although I did it somewhat based on the .NET IR and this seems a bit more AI-ish.
  3. …on this is a turbocharged fork of joker, with an IR-driven runtime and a WASM bridge via wazero: https://github.com/rcarmo/go-joker
    comment by rcarmo · 2026-06-18 · in Clojure Hosted on Go
  4. …and ultimately realized that I wanted more batteries included but didn't want Python... So I forked https://github.com/rcarmo/go-joker and am tinkering with it until it does all I want.
    comment by rcarmo · 2026-06-02 · in Why Janet? (2023)