I wish you luck!

[luposlip]

In your article (http://www.davidykay.com/Clojure-CLR-for-Cross-platform-Native-Mobile-App-Development/) you ask people to wish you luck. That's what I do here!

Actually I'm really interested in hearing from you - did you get it up and running? How about tool support? Startup time?

The thing about React Native (built with re-natal, re-frame etc.) is that since it compiles to JavaScript, the startup time for a ClojureScript based native app is exactly the same as a normal React Native based native app. Short.

I don't know Xamarin enough to know exactly how this would/could work with clojure-clr, but I guess it's a completely different ballgame (startup time seem to be limited by Xamarin, not clojure-clr, and I don't know the startup time of Xamarin, or..?).

BTW: I've been doing a couple of native apps in ClojureScript built for native platforms with Cordova. I'm currently looking to port those to React Native, but I'm currently evaluating the possibility to use Xamarin for some things as well.

Best,
Henrik

[aiba]

I'd like to chime in and wish some additional luck to the author.

Clojure hackers are so spoiled by their developer experience that it's painful for them to get tossed into the world of mobile development, XCode, Swift, Node, etc. This is not just due to the lack of familiarity, these are legitimately worse designed tools than clojure.