How mature is clojure-clr? Can I use it with Mono?

Question

How mature is clojure-clr? Does this support all the functions that clojure/jvm provides? Does it run on Mono without any problem?

I tried clojure-clr, and it seems to work fine with REPL. However, when I tried to run examples with mono Clojure.Main.exe clojure/samples/ants.clj, I got a bunch of error messages. Is this a problem with running clojure-clr on Mono?

Answer 1

It is commonly used from, what i gather, on mono though it gets less attention than clojure-jvm in almost every way so it seems reasonable to expect it to lag the JVM version on features and have its own set of bugs. Slower development may also reduce the bug creation rate perhaps?

Answer 2

I find this SO post quite interesting and useful - Clojure on the CLR

This video clip is also pretty interesting - http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/charles/emerging-langs-clojure-and-f, and from this video, Rich Hickey (the inventor of Clojure) said that Clojure was initially programmed with C# and Java. He also mentioned the original name he thought about Clojure was CLJ(C#, Lisp and Java): Why is Clojure named Clojure