Jolt
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Jolt solved this problem for me completely.”
“Jolt is amazing work.”
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“Glad to see some healthy physics simulation options, next to Jolt, PhysX and https://github.com/newton-physics/newton”
“can be extremely high quality, like Jolt”
Caveats and dissent
“Competent or not, slop is still slop.”
“This appears to be vibecoded but not disclosed as such.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Definitely excited with the progress so far.”
“Jolt basically aims to be a drop in JVM replacement for running existing Clojure code.”
“I recently factored out a portable Scheme layer and got Jolt to compile against Gambit as a backend.”
“As for Jolt this work is more expirimental truth be told I started it this year”
Threads where it came up
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All comments 13
“Jolt solved this problem for me completely.”
“great to have Jolt as an option as well”
“Jolt is amazing work.”
“Jolt actually does have both Scheme interop and FFI”
“Competent or not, slop is still slop.”
Protocols, records, and the like will be implemented in jank. They haven't been prioritized for two reasons. Firstly, historically, jank had a closed object model for performance, which I have blogged about here: https://jank-lang.org/blog/2023-07-08-object-model/ Over the past few years, I've been spending hammock time to find a solution to this to re-open the object model efficiently. I came up with a design this y
“This appears to be vibecoded but not disclosed as such.”
“How much "production ready" / "battle tested" would this be ?”
“Glad to see some healthy physics simulation options, next to Jolt, PhysX and https://github.com/newton-physics/newton”
“So far Jolt is working pretty well”
“There seems to be a library called jolt which claims to handle physics well”
“can be extremely high quality, like Jolt”
“which can be extremely high quality, like Jolt”