let-go
Languages and libraries
clojure-like language
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How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
9 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 3 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 4 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast startup time and small binary
From 2 comments
This is really cool. “I wanted an excuse for writing Clojure while pretending to write Go” genuinely made me laugh. The 7ms startup time and Plan9 support are both kind of wild…
fizza_pizza on HNLet-go is a Clojure-like language (~90% compatible with JVM Clojure) written in pure Go. It ships as a ~10MB static binary and cold boots in ~7ms - that's about 50x faster than…
marcingas on HN
Funny, clever project concept
From 2 comments
This is really cool. “I wanted an excuse for writing Clojure while pretending to write Go” genuinely made me laugh. The 7ms startup time and Plan9 support are both kind of wild…
fizza_pizza on HNVery cool project!
slantedview on HN
Plan 9 support
From 2 comments
Amazing that it can run in plan9! It would be awesome if go was a first class language on 9front. I.e. ships with it. I've been messing around with a social network for plan9:…
dharmatech on HNThis is really cool. “I wanted an excuse for writing Clojure while pretending to write Go” genuinely made me laugh. The 7ms startup time and Plan9 support are both kind of wild…
fizza_pizza on HN
Objections
README and code appear AI-generated
From 3 comments
obviously vibecoded
asdfasd323f on HNabsolutely sick of reading through obviously AI-slopped READMEs. it's your project, take a little pride and tell me why i should like it quickly instead of asking your agent to…
j3s on HNobvious AI slop. just garbage.
asdasd44123123 on HN
Startup time claim was unclear (7ms vs 6ms)
From 1 comment
Micro nit: it says 7ms cold start and then 6ms just few lines lower.. maybe it gets faster as you read README
boguscoder on HN
Requests
Better, less AI-sounding README
From 2 comments
absolutely sick of reading through obviously AI-slopped READMEs. it's your project, take a little pride and tell me why i should like it quickly instead of asking your agent to…
j3s on HNWhy did you feel the need to slopify your README? The original version read much, much better. I genuinely don’t understand why people do this.
stingraycharles on HN
Clearer interop with Go libraries
From 1 comment
Cool, I think at this point, since there's a few Clojure Go dialect, what I'd like to understand most is which one is fully hosted on Go, has as good interop as JVM Clojure has…
didibus on HN
Questions
Is it AI-generated or hand-written
From 2 comments
obviously vibecoded
asdfasd323f on HNIs it bad? Did you try it?
adi_kurian on HN
How does it compare to Glojure and Joker
From 2 comments
do you know about Glojure? https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure
brazukadev on HNCool, I think at this point, since there's a few Clojure Go dialect, what I'd like to understand most is which one is fully hosted on Go, has as good interop as JVM Clojure has…
didibus on HN
Alternatives named
Glojure
From 2 comments
do you know about Glojure? https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure
brazukadev on HNhttps://github.com/gloathub/glojure is the actively maintained fork.
ingy on HN
Joker
From 1 comment
An alternative is Joker: https://joker-lang.org I think it is brilliant and completely underappreciated :)
lsh0 on HN
Janet
From 1 comment
Nice! I recently played around with a Lisp syntax for Go semantics: https://codeberg.org/veqq/Joe As far as JVM-free Clojure, Janet is really nice. I've been using it in…
veqq on HN
Babashka-like JVM Clojure
From 1 comment
Let-go is a Clojure-like language (~90% compatible with JVM Clojure) written in pure Go. It ships as a ~10MB static binary and cold boots in ~7ms - that's about 50x faster than…
marcingas on HN