How does the repl work? Does it compile to Go, then execute? Or does it ship with a full vm? Most go repls are really slow because they need to compile/execute (they fake the "e" part in repl). Its a niche case, but could enable some fun projects.
> We are halfway through the Q2 2026 Clojurists Together funding cycle, so this is a good time to report what has been done for Gloat and Glojure.
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> Since the start of the grant period, Gloat and Glojure have had over 20 releases, with Gloat moving from v0.1.26 to v0.1.50. The Glojure work was all being done on the long running fork gloathub/glojure, but I'm thrilled to announce that as of today, the work has been fully moved back to the upstream glojurelang/glojure and will continue to be maintained and released from there.
> My overall ambition for Gloat is to have Clojure be as full featured and prominent to Go programming as it is to Java. The industry is crazy about Go. Let's get it crazy about Clojure.
> Make Gloat/Glojure binaries smaller and faster. Pass more of the Clojure Compatibility Test Suite. Create tutorial docs on: How to use Gloat to integrate Clojure into Go projects and How to use Gloat instead of GraalVM to (cross-)compile Clojure.
Jank, a Clojure dialect, is playing in the same field:
> Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT. This allows jank to offer the same benefits of REPL-based development while being able to seamlessly reach into the native world and compete seriously with JVM's performance.
From what I can gather from the site it has no security or sandboxing features. Or am I missing something?
I'm asking because I'm thinking about R7RS Wile scheme[1] as an embedded language, which has some basic security features. But it's heavily vibe-coded and that puts me off a bit, so I'm looking for other Lisp or Scheme dialects in Go.
I'm creating cross-platform GUI applications in Go. Besides that, there are numerous reasons why an extension/scripting language might need various security and sandboxing features on a server, too.
The Go runtime, toolchain, and ecosystem are great- it makes sense to target it.
Worth changing the submit URL to this one?
Edit: never mind. Spoke too soon. Ingy is keeping gloathub/glojure fork and glojurelang/glojure source at parity.
How does the repl work? Does it compile to Go, then execute? Or does it ship with a full vm? Most go repls are really slow because they need to compile/execute (they fake the "e" part in repl). Its a niche case, but could enable some fun projects.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272524
I wonder how it’s progressed in the past two years?
[0] https://gloathub.org/blog/2026/06/16/gloat-q2-grant-halfway-...
> We are halfway through the Q2 2026 Clojurists Together funding cycle, so this is a good time to report what has been done for Gloat and Glojure.
...
> Since the start of the grant period, Gloat and Glojure have had over 20 releases, with Gloat moving from v0.1.26 to v0.1.50. The Glojure work was all being done on the long running fork gloathub/glojure, but I'm thrilled to announce that as of today, the work has been fully moved back to the upstream glojurelang/glojure and will continue to be maintained and released from there.
> My overall ambition for Gloat is to have Clojure be as full featured and prominent to Go programming as it is to Java. The industry is crazy about Go. Let's get it crazy about Clojure.
[1] https://www.clojuriststogether.org/projects/#Gloat:~:text=Ma...
> Make Gloat/Glojure binaries smaller and faster. Pass more of the Clojure Compatibility Test Suite. Create tutorial docs on: How to use Gloat to integrate Clojure into Go projects and How to use Gloat instead of GraalVM to (cross-)compile Clojure.
[0]: https://github.com/nooga/let-go
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076815
https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
> Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT. This allows jank to offer the same benefits of REPL-based development while being able to seamlessly reach into the native world and compete seriously with JVM's performance.
https://jank-lang.org/
https://github.com/d5/tengo
I'm asking because I'm thinking about R7RS Wile scheme[1] as an embedded language, which has some basic security features. But it's heavily vibe-coded and that puts me off a bit, so I'm looking for other Lisp or Scheme dialects in Go.
[1] https://github.com/aalpar/wile