What is jank?
Most simply, jank is a Clojure dialect on LLVM with C++ interop. Less simply, jank is a general-purpose programming language which embraces the interactive, functional, value-oriented nature of Clojure and the desire for the native runtime and performance of C++. jank aims to be strongly compatible with Clojure. While Clojure's default host is the JVM and its interop is with Java, jank's host is LLVM and its interop is with C++.
jank is currently in alpha! Look here for details.
Docs
Read the jank book.
Appetizer
; Comments begin with a ; ( println " meow " ) ; => nil ; All built-in data structures are persistent and immutable. ( def george { :name " George Clooney " }) ; => #'user/george ; Though all data is immutable by default, side effects are adhoc. ( defn say-hi [who] ( println ( str " Hi " ( :name who) " ! " )) ( assoc who :greeted? true )) ; Doesn't change george. ( say-hi george) ; => {:name "George Clooney" ; :greeted? true} ; Many core functions for working with immutable data. ( apply + ( distinct [ 12 8 12 16 8 6 ])) ; => 42 ; Interop with C++ can happen *seamlessly*. ( defn sleep [ms] ( let [duration ( cpp/std.chrono.milliseconds ms)] ( cpp/std.this_thread.sleep_for duration)))
Sponsors
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Misha Karpenko
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