I resurrected Clojure-Android
native Clojure on your phone over nREPL
Details
- External ID
- 47533872
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I resurrected Clojure-Android
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7207872078720787
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
* Run native Clojure on Android* Develop over nREPL* Build for F-Droid or Google Play* Write UIs in a declarative DSL with reactive cells* Use device sensors as reactive cells* Use intent callbacks without wanting to smash your device with a hammer* Fast startup - release builds launch in under 2 seconds on a five year old midrange phone
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- clojure programming on android devices
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Porting and maintaining Clojure on modern Android runtimes involves bytecode manipulation, ART runtime compatibility, dynamic class loading constraints, and low-level JVM-to-Android integration. These compiler and runtime internals require deep platform and language runtime expertise.
What it would actually take: The project requires patching the Clojure compiler to emit DEX-compatible bytecode or using on-device dexing (D8/R8) dynamically, overcoming Android's restrictions on arbitrary bytecode execution and class loaders. It also involves wrapping Android SDK APIs into an nREPL server and custom reactive cell DSL without causing memory leaks against the Android Activity lifecycle. This demands an experienced compiler/runtime engineer with deep knowledge of both the JVM and the Android Runtime (ART).
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Competitors
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Launched 85 days after the earliest competitor.
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