I asked Rich, he said "the first Clojure commits were in Common Lisp, generating Java and C#"

Aah, wow! Clever idea. I am surprised CLR was in picture from the beginning. Will read up on lisp docs from here on. Thanks!

Though on second thoughts how do you recommend reading the clojure source?

up until 1.0, Clojure was developed in parallel on both Java and C# and you'll see parallel commits in both

there were a couple pre-Clojure libs that Rich did before Clojure too - jfli and foil which I think are both still out on sourceforge

http://jfli.sourceforge.net/

Interesting! What were they for?

well, read the rationales :) but trying to achieve the same goal - marrying Lisp and the JVM

http://foil.sourceforge.net/

WoW! This is so cool. 🙂

Clojure was take #3

I guess maintaining them was a hassle?

I think they failed to go far enough to be satisfying

Aah!

I think jfli was in-process connection to lisp, foil was out of process connection, and clojure finally was actually lisp in the jvm

#3 time is a charm! 🙂

Do you think in principle a typed clojure port could be written that transpiles to webassembly? Like cljs->js

I don't know that much about typed clojure or webassembly or js :)

ohh, thanks anyway.