Clojure-py x2, and leiningen creeps into other languages — Apr 10

Clojure-Py is moving at a great speed, in part because the python VM is a very good host for Clojure. This new release brings us deftypes, protocols, reify, records, binding, defmulti and defmethod, hierarchies, try/catch and try/finally (but not try/catch/finally), beter python interop and much more (as in, 290 tests). Also, it can’t be easier to give it a try with easy_install.

Not only clojure is creeping into other host languages (CLR, JavaScript, Python), but also Leiningen is now creeping into Elixir, a language built on top of the Erlang VM.

… or, how to get arround the fact that many python libraries require GIL, an unfortunate fact that limits concurrency in Python programs. Hint: actors