Clojure Status Clojure is a dynamic, compiled, functional dialect of Lisp for the JVM, with strong concurrency support.
Clojure has been in development for 2.5 years. In public release for 6 months, there has been a lot of interest - 2500+ downloads, and 270+ members of the Google Group, generating over 1700 messages so far. The latest release is 20080329. Releases come every 4-6 weeks, and incorporate new features and fixes. Many users track the SVN repository, which is kept free of known bugs, and lets them try out features pre-release. Though new features are being added, the language is stable, and useful for a variety of tasks. Early users are doing web, database, graphics, audio and other tasks with Clojure. There is extensive online and in-environment documentation, a wikibook, online tutorial screencasts and presentations, an irc channel, a contrib project for libraries and extensions, editing support for Emacs, Vi and a brand new Netbeans module - enclojure. If you are interested in functional programming, Lisp, software transactional memory, agents, multimethods and other language features, in an efficient, dynamic environment, with great access to the Java frameworks, the best way to help Clojure is to try it out, and join the Clojure community on the Google group. http://clojure.org http://groups.google.com/group/clojure http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming irc://irc.freenode.net/#clojure http://clojure.blip.tv/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/clojure-contrib http://enclojure.org/ On Apr 18, 1:33 pm, Charles Oliver Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been approved to do a talk at CommunityOne this year on how "we" > all have been trying to bring JVM language implementers together. The > general idea is to show that the "sleeping giant" of languages on the > JVM is starting to wake up and will really be a force to reckon with. > > So now I have to figure out what I'm going to talk about...here's my > general idea so far: > > - Discussion of a few key languages that could be arguably considered > "popular" and where they stand in their development processes > - Other languages that are "up and coming" and their status. In both of > these two sections it would be with an emphasis on showing how the > process works and how people can help. > - Discussion of the JVM language list, the JVM language runtime, Da > Vinci Machine and JDK7 work, and other research helping languages in the > future. This will show how we're all trying to cooperate to solve the > problems of language impl on JVM. > - How you can get involved, sites, mailing lists, list of books and > resources for languages and language implementing, and people to talk to. > > I'm looking for help from you all, basically to attend if you'll be > around SF for JavaOne, and you help me with information that fits into > the above categories for whatever languages you're working on. I'd also > love to hear about current and future projects you feel like are working > toward solving JVM language impl challenges. > > Thoughts? Ideas for content you think should be added? Keep in mind that > the crowd for this is going to be JavaOne-style folks, but probably the > ones most interested in alternative languages. That could be a lot of > them, and it could set the stage for the many language-related talks the > rest of the week. > > - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
