[Chicken-users] Clojure

[bill]

Hi all,

I'm curious.   Has anyone in the Chicken community looked at Clojure - 
the new Lisp-like language that ties in to the  JVM?    I spent some 
time with it last week and found it not quite ready for prime time.   (I 
think it's more Java than  Lisp)

It got me thinking, however.    Java is a complex abomination, but it 
does have one thing in it's favor - the JVM and the endless libraries 
you'll find there.    Whenever I tell people how great Chicken Scheme is 
they always come back to me with the same agrument they use against Lisp 
- it just doesn't have the breadth of libraries needed in the real 
world.    There are a lot of eggs, but not some key ones (PNG and GTK 
for instance)

How do we change this and compete with the ideas behind Clojure and 
Scala?    Scheme is a much better language.

Bill