Most simply, jank is a Clojure dialect on LLVM with C++ interop. Less simply, jank is a general-purpose programming language which embraces the interactive, functional, value-oriented nature of Clojure and the desire for the native runtime and performance of C++. jank aims to be strongly compatible with Clojure. While Clojure's default host is the JVM and its interop is with Java, jank's host is LLVM and its interop is with C++.
jank is currently in alpha! Look here for details.
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(ns my.app.filesystem
(:include "boost/filesystem.hpp")
(:refer-global :rename {boost.filesystem.file_size file-size}))
(defn file-info [file-path]
(try
(let [bytes (file-size (cpp/cast std.string file-path))]
{:path file-path
:size bytes})
(catch boost.filesystem.filesystem_error e
{:path file-path
:error (.what e)})))
(file-info "/etc/passwd")
; {:path "/etc/passwd", :size 4025}
(file-info "/root/.bash_history")
; {:path "/root/.bash_history"
; :error "boost::filesystem::file_size: Permission denied [system:13]: \"/root/.bash_history\""}If you'd like your name, company, or logo here, you can sponsor this project for at least $25/m.


