The Go runtime, toolchain, and ecosystem are great- it makes sense to target it.
rienbdj 1 days ago [-]
Looks like a nice language. They market it as a Rust-like looks more like an ML to me.
tomjakubowski 12 hours ago [-]
Rust itself, at least the early incarnations, was pretty strongly influenced by ML. The first rustcs, before it became self-hosted, were written in Ocaml.
Gosh this is exactly what I’m looking for, would love for this to become mature and popular.
shikck200 2 days ago [-]
ext_18fc9_18">Thats pretty sweet.
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.
...
> 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.
kpassapk 1 days ago [-]
dialects are IMO the most exciting thing about clojure. they are making progress quickly and reaching parity.
didibus 2 days ago [-]
I believe this is the most promising Clojure hosted on Go, as their has been a few recently, this is the only one with full proper interop.
> I think Gloat/Glojure has the best hosted runtime story because of its AOT to Go src pipeline - you can grab anything Go at compile time. OTOH let-go can roundtrip any Go value including structs, functions and channels but it does not allow pulling arbitrary go libs without wrapping them up first - they'd need to be built into the runtime for this.
rcarmo 1 days ago [-]
My take 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
nathell 1 days ago [-]
Another recent Clojure dialect written in Go: [0], HN discussion: [1]
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.
My current choice of Go interpreter for untrusted code is Starlark in Go (https://github.com/google/starlark-go/). Since Starlark is a dialect of Python, it's occurred to me it might be fun to put a Hy-like (https://hylang.org/) layer on top.
kitd 1 days ago [-]
A Go executable is self-contained. You can put it in a Docker container with very little overhead. That would give you some sandboxing at least.
jonathanstrange 1 days ago [-]
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.
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.
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.
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.
> I think Gloat/Glojure has the best hosted runtime story because of its AOT to Go src pipeline - you can grab anything Go at compile time. OTOH let-go can roundtrip any Go value including structs, functions and channels but it does not allow pulling arbitrary go libs without wrapping them up first - they'd need to be built into the runtime for this.
[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
My current choice of Go interpreter for untrusted code is Starlark in Go (https://github.com/google/starlark-go/). Since Starlark is a dialect of Python, it's occurred to me it might be fun to put a Hy-like (https://hylang.org/) layer on top.