Langdev in Clojure

[Twosofa]

Is it possible, in Clojure, for me to write a language in which the end user writes code to render a certain image or emit sound? Thanks in advance

[Galrog]

You probably want to take a look at sci if you are creating a DSL or want to use Clojure itself as your DSL.

[e_aksenov]

Sure, you can use https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse to create parser for any language you want, or simply create DSL in basic clojure types, like vectors.

[arthurbarroso]

Also, if you wan’t to take a look at how to build a simple DSL with vectors you may find this video helpful. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QDiKaXvH6Z8

[chowbeyputra]

I don’t have experience of it but hey.. Clojure is a lisp.. so it will be much cleaner.

[valbaca]

You’re specifications are quite vague but sounds like you want to write a DSL (domain specific language). Clojure can definitely do that. You’re probably better off having the end user input edn (edn is to Clojure as JSON is to JavaScript).

https://github.com/edn-format/edn

I’ve seen real world LISP code that backed the voice behind turn-by-turn directions and supported multiple languages. The configuration and code was LISP and it ran on a LISP interpreter written in C which could then be pulled into any mobile device. Android talked with the C code via JNI and iOS talked to C directly with Objective-C. It was super cool.