I had to check if the creator is Polish, as "ciekawa" means "interesting". But apparently, just a coincidence.
If you are interested in this, you might also be interested to learn that I also got clojure running on SBCL via OpenLDK. See <a href="https://github.com/atgreen/cl-clojure" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/atgreen/cl-clojure</a>.<p>Regarding LLM-usage, the bulk of OpenLDK was written without the use of LLMs. But recently I let Claude loose on the code to fix a few remaining problems blocking kawa. Claude also upleveled the Java support from Java 8 to Java 21.<p>I wrote a couple of blog entries related to this work that might be of interest. One was around how I had to use the MOP to optimize method dispatch in CLOS for clojure: <a href="https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/clos-mop-dispatch/" rel="nofollow">https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/clos-mop-dispatch/</a>
Perhaps someone could port Arc to Kawa! Then the whole contraption could run HN on SBCL in a roundabout way.
The OpenLDK is very interesting - it looks like it “compiles” to the vintage procedural dialect within CL (eg TAGBODY etc.) I wonder if someone’s ever bypassed the “procedural Lisp” level and just used a CL implementation’s internal assembler interactively, though. (IIRC both SBCL and CCL expose theirs.)
I haven't tried it, but the description sounds delightfully perverse. And an LLM (Claude) cannot be embarrassed by perverting Lisp/Scheme with Java.
Why should it?<p>"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." -- Guy Steele
RMS itself being a diehard Scheme and Elisp user said that he found Java elegant over C. This was OFC long before Go and when C++ was king in the 90's.<p>On Java itself, when CLOS, a dog-ancient system for Common Lisp it's enough to support the Java class/method/object system by itself tells a lot on how great CL can be, even with SBCL which is the top tier free (as in freedom) interpreter/compiler out there.<p>On performance, well, who knows; remember that PyPy itself back in the day was written in Python itself and it ran things much faster than the vanilla Python interpreter.
The Computer Abstractions book/course for Scheme had some kind of VM written in Java where you had to write an assembler in Scheme as the final 'biggie' project.
Here's something I wrote about this work: <a href="https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/cl-kawa/" rel="nofollow">https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/cl-kawa/</a>
On OpenLDK, if it's able to run something like SweetHome3D at usable speeds I would consider it a success and an interesting exercise.
And? Do you want a medal for plagiarizing other people's work?