44: Jank with Jeaye Wilkerson

Jeaye Wilkerson talks about compilers, LLVM, and building a dynamic, compiled Clojure

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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