44: Jank with Jeaye Wilkerson

Jeaye Wilkerson talks about compilers, LLVM, and building a dynamic, compiled Clojure. Note: I used the wrong link initially when publishing this episode. If you are hearing the wrong conversation, delete the episode and re-download it. Thanks! Jeaye has a background in C++ systems programming, focusing on games and game engines. After 5 years of that, he co-founded an esports tournament startup written in full-stack Clojure for another 5 years. These days, he’s at Electronic Arts (EA) building tooling used to make some of the world’s top games. In each space, C++, Rust, Clojure, NixOS, etc, Jeaye aims to make an impact with his open source projects. For Clojure, at first, that was with Orchestra. Now, the flagship is jank. Jank Cling - CERN’s interactive C++ interpreter Immer - Immutable data structures for C++ Swig - Generate bindings for C/C++ code GraalVM Polyglot Orchestra Compiler Spotlight q3 Jeaye’s GitHub Sponsors profile Compiler Spotlight on Fennel