Basilisp is a Clojure-compatible(-ish) Lisp dialect targeting Python 3.9+. Basilisp compiles down to raw Python 3 code and executes on the Python 3 virtual machine, allowing natural interoperabilit...
I agree, the second approach is more direct, so the only limitation comes from the properties of the VM itself. Transpiling to Python means also inheriting semantic quirks of the intermediate language. It makes sense for ClojureScript to do it, since js is the layer that browsers expose, but if you have the option to target the VM bytecode directly then that’s a much better option.
I agree, the second approach is more direct, so the only limitation comes from the properties of the VM itself. Transpiling to Python means also inheriting semantic quirks of the intermediate language. It makes sense for ClojureScript to do it, since js is the layer that browsers expose, but if you have the option to target the VM bytecode directly then that’s a much better option.
Exactly, The transpilers are necessary when the target system only works exclusively with a single language.