Clojure-like
June 19, 2026 · View on GitHub
List of Clojure-inspired programming languages, including ports, dialects, compilers, environments etc.
Updated on: 19 Jun 2026
Total: 93
🔥 Trending
Top-starred over the last 2 months
| Icon | Name | Stars added |
|---|---|---|
 | let-go 🔗 | ➕ 417⭐ |
 | Clojure 🔗 | ➕ 173⭐ |
 | Glojure | ➕ 162⭐ |
 | jank 🔗 | ➕ 101⭐ |
 | Janet 🔗 | ➕ 95⭐ |
 | Carp | ➕ 89⭐ |
 | babashka 🔗 | ➕ 76⭐ |
| clojurust | ➕ 42⭐ | |
 | Phel 🔗 | ➕ 37⭐ |
 | ClojureWasm | ➕ 37⭐ |
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| Icon | Name | Stars added |
|---|---|---|
 | Jolt 🔗 | ➕ 35⭐ |
 | Hy 🔗 | ➕ 30⭐ |
| FOL | ➕ 24⭐ | |
| Joker 🔗 | ➕ 23⭐ | |
 | Gloat | ➕ 23⭐ |
 | Squint 🔗 | ➕ 22⭐ |
 | go-joker 🔗 | ➕ 22⭐ |
| Beagle | ➕ 21⭐ | |
 | Fennel ↗ 🔗 | ➕ 19⭐ |
| Basilisp 🔗 | ➕ 19⭐ | |
| ClojureDart | ➕ 18⭐ | |
| mino 🔗 | ➕ 18⭐ | |
 | ClojureScript | ➕ 17⭐ |
| ClojureCLR | ➕ 13⭐ |
| Cream | ➕ 12⭐ | |
 | Lux | ➕ 10⭐ |
 | Clojerl 🔗 | ➕ 10⭐ |
 | SCI | ➕ 10⭐ |
 | nbb | ➕ 8⭐ |
| Cloture | ➕ 8⭐ | |
| Swish | ➕ 7⭐ | |
 | ClojureRS | ➕ 6⭐ |
| Ferret 🔗 | ➕ 5⭐ | |
| Cherry 🔗 | ➕ 5⭐ |
| Liz | ➕ 5⭐ | |
| Kiso 🔗 | ➕ 5⭐ |
| zygomys 🔗 | ➕ 4⭐ | |
 | Sheaf 🔗 | ➕ 4⭐ |
| Cljam 🔗 | ➕ 3⭐ | |
| clojure-rt | ➕ 3⭐ | |
| Bars 🔗 | ➕ 3⭐ | |
 | Pixie | ➕ 2⭐ |
| Joxa | ➕ 2⭐ | |
 | Kalai | ➕ 2⭐ |
| CLClojure | ➕ 2⭐ | |
| Lokke | ➕ 2⭐ | |
| nanoclj | ➕ 2⭐ | |
| ClojureFnl | ➕ 2⭐ | |
 | Arcadia 🔗 | ➕ 1⭐ |
| Planck 🔗 | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| wisp 🔗 | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| ClojureC | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| TimL | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| Rhine | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| Glojure | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| Rustly | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| JO Clojure | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| clojure-clr-next | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| ClojureHaxe | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| Gojure | ➕ 1⭐ | |
 | Venice | ➕ 1⭐ |
| clojure-py | ➕ 1⭐ | |
| Bara Lang ↗ | ➕ 1⭐ |
⚡ Most active
Most contributed to the default branch over the last 2 months
| Icon | Name | New commits |
|---|---|---|
| ClojureWasm | ➕ 2.2k commits |
| mino 🔗 | ➕ 1.9k commits | |
| go-joker 🔗 | ➕ 1.2k commits |
| Phel 🔗 | ➕ 980 commits |
| Beagle | ➕ 715 commits | |
| clojurust | ➕ 608 commits | |
| Jolt 🔗 | ➕ 504 commits |
| Venice | ➕ 397 commits |
| let-go 🔗 | ➕ 300 commits |
| Swish | ➕ 219 commits |
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| Icon | Name | New commits |
|---|---|---|
| Glojure | ➕ 179 commits |
| Gloat | ➕ 135 commits |
| clojure-rt | ➕ 96 commits | |
| clojure-py | ➕ 93 commits | |
| Bara Lang ↗ | ➕ 69 commits | |
| Bars 🔗 | ➕ 68 commits | |
| FOL | ➕ 67 commits | |
| jank 🔗 | ➕ 63 commits |
| Hy 🔗 | ➕ 53 commits |
| Joker 🔗 | ➕ 50 commits | |
| Sheaf 🔗 | ➕ 44 commits |
| Bridje | ➕ 39 commits | |
| Squint 🔗 | ➕ 38 commits |
| Lux | ➕ 34 commits |
| Cljam 🔗 | ➕ 30 commits | |
| babashka 🔗 | ➕ 27 commits |
| zygomys 🔗 | ➕ 25 commits | |
| Carp | ➕ 24 commits |
| ClojureFnl | ➕ 22 commits | |
| Janet 🔗 | ➕ 18 commits |
| SCI | ➕ 17 commits |
| ClojureScript | ➕ 15 commits |
| ClojureCLR | ➕ 15 commits |
| ClojureDart | ➕ 14 commits | |
| Cream | ➕ 6 commits | |
| Basilisp 🔗 | ➕ 5 commits | |
| Clojure 🔗 | ➕ 4 commits |
| nbb | ➕ 3 commits |
| Cherry 🔗 | ➕ 1 commits |
| Closhure | ➕ 1 commits |
✨ Newest
Most recently created over the past year
| Icon | Name | Created |
|---|---|---|
| Bars 🔗 | 02 Jun 2026 | |
| Jolt 🔗 | 01 Jun 2026 |
| Beagle | 15 May 2026 | |
| Bara Lang ↗ | 08 May 2026 | |
| clojure-py | 24 Apr 2026 | |
| mino 🔗 | 13 Apr 2026 | |
| ClojureFnl | 10 Mar 2026 | |
| Kiso 🔗 | 03 Mar 2026 |
| clojurust | 02 Mar 2026 | |
| Cljam 🔗 | 22 Feb 2026 |
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| Icon | Name | Created |
|---|---|---|
| Cream | 22 Feb 2026 | |
| Swish | 10 Feb 2026 | |
| Gloat | 02 Feb 2026 |
| ClojureWasm | 01 Feb 2026 |
| FOL | 18 Jan 2026 | |
| Sheaf 🔗 | 10 Jan 2026 |
📋 Main
| Icon | Name | Description | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clojure 🔗 | The Clojure programming language | Java | 11k⭐ |
| ClojureScript | Clojure to JS compiler | Clojure | 9.4k⭐ |
| Carp | A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications. | Haskell | 6k⭐ |
| Hy 🔗 | A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python | Python | 5.4k⭐ |
| babashka 🔗 | Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting | Clojure | 4.5k⭐ |
| Janet 🔗 | A dynamic language and bytecode vm | C | 4.3k⭐ |
| jank 🔗 | The native Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with seamless C++ interop. | C++ | 3.3k⭐ |
| Fennel ↗ 🔗 | Lua Lisp Language | Fennel | 2.7k⭐ |
| Pixie | A small, fast, native lisp with "magical" powers | Python | 2.4k⭐ |
 | Lumo | Fast, cross-platform, standalone ClojureScript environment | Clojure | 1.9k⭐ |
| zygomys 🔗 | Zygo is a Lisp interpreter written in 100% Go. Central use case: dynamically compose Go struct trees in a zygo script, then invoke compiled Go functions on those trees. Makes Go reflection easy. | Go | 1.8k⭐ | |
| Joker 🔗 | Small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter. | Go | 1.8k⭐ | |
| Lux | The Lux Programming Language | Emacs Lisp | 1.7k⭐ |
| Clojerl 🔗 | Clojure for the Erlang VM (unofficial) | Erlang | 1.7k⭐ |
| Arcadia 🔗 | Clojure in Unity | Clojure | 1.7k⭐ |
| ClojureCLR | A port of Clojure to the CLR, part of the Clojure project | C# | 1.6k⭐ |
| ClojureDart | Clojure dialect for Flutter and Dart | Clojure | 1.6k⭐ | |
| SCI | Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs | Clojure | 1.4k⭐ |
| Ferret 🔗 | Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems. | Makefile | 1.1k⭐ | |
| Planck 🔗 | Stand-alone ClojureScript REPL | C | 1k⭐ | |
| wisp 🔗 | A little Clojure-like LISP in JavaScript | wisp | 987⭐ | |
| ClojureRS | Clojure, implemented atop Rust (unofficial) | Rust | 982⭐ |
| nbb | Scripting in Clojure on Node.js using SCI | Clojure | 955⭐ |
| ClojureC | A Clojure implementation on top of C | Clojure | 922⭐ | |
| Squint 🔗 | Light-weight ClojureScript dialect | Clojure | 870⭐ |
| TimL | Clojure like language which compiles down to VimL | Vim Script | 679⭐ | |
| Glojure | Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, with extensible interop support. | Go | 672⭐ |
| Cherry 🔗 | Experimental ClojureScript to ES6 module compiler | Clojure | 644⭐ |
| Rhine | 🏞 an OCaml compiler for an untyped lisp | OCaml | 635⭐ | |
| clojure-scheme | Clojure to Scheme to C to the bare metal. | Clojure | 565⭐ | |
| gherkin 🔗 | a functional programming language and interpreter written in GNU Bash 4 | Shell | 521⭐ | |
| Phel 🔗 | A functional, Lisp-inspired language that compiles to PHP. Inspired by Clojure, Phel brings macros, persistent data structures, and expressive functional idioms to the PHP ecosystem. | PHP | 513⭐ |
| let-go 🔗 | Almost Clojure written in Go. | Go | 505⭐ |
 | Fleck | A LISP that runs wherever Bash is | Shell | 504⭐ |
| ki 🔗 | lisp + mori, sweet.js | JavaScript | 479⭐ | |
| Joxa | A Modern Lisp for the Erlang VM | Erlang | 475⭐ | |
| Basilisp 🔗 | A Clojure-compatible(-ish) Lisp dialect hosted on Python 3 with seamless Python interop | Python | 468⭐ | |
| Cloture | Clojure in Common Lisp | Common Lisp | 399⭐ | |
| Liz | Lisp-flavored general-purpose programming language (based on Zig) | Clojure | 291⭐ | |
| clojure-objc | Clojure for objc | Java | 245⭐ | |
| Kalai | A source-to-source transpiler to convert Clojure to multiple target languages (Rust, C++, Java, ...) | Clojure | 243⭐ |
| LispSyntax.jl | lisp-like syntax in julia | Julia | 237⭐ | |
| CLClojure | An experimental port of clojure to common lisp. Also some native common lisp implementations of clojure libraries, like seq, persistent vectors, etc. | Common Lisp | 231⭐ | |
| Lokke | Lokke: Clojure for Guile | Scheme | 220⭐ | |
| cljs2go | ClojureScript to Go | Go | 211⭐ | |
| llr | Lisp-like-R: A clojure inspired lisp that compiles to R in R | R | 205⭐ | |
| Glojure | The Glojure programming language | Go | 177⭐ | |
| Rustly | A Clojure to Rust transpiler | Clojure | 167⭐ | |
| JO Clojure | Fast Embeddable Clojure in C/C++ | C++ | 153⭐ | |
| Clojurescript-Lua | Clojurescript running on lua ! In construction | Clojure | 150⭐ | |
| Cream | Fast starting Clojure runtime built with GraalVM native-image + Crema | Clojure | 146⭐ | |
| clojure-clr-next | Next generation of ClojureCLR under development. | F# | 142⭐ | |
| Cormorant | Clojure(ish) interpreter in Swift | Swift | 133⭐ | |
| Lithium | Clojure-based x86 assembler and toy Lisp compiler | Clojure | 126⭐ | |
| ClojureWasm | A lightweight Clojure runtime in Zig — call WebAssembly from Clojure to tap libraries written in any language. | Zig | 125⭐ |
| Kapok 🔗 | A Lisp on the Erlang VM | Erlang | 121⭐ | |
| ClojureScript-Terra | A Terra-backed ClojureScript compiler | Clojure | 88⭐ | |
| nanoclj | A Tiny Clojure Interpreter | C | 76⭐ | |
| ClojureHaxe | Clojure port written in Haxe targeting multiple platforms | Haxe | 68⭐ | |
| Bridje | Bridje is a statically typed LISP targeting GraalVM, drawing inspiration from Clojure, Haskell and Kotlin. | Kotlin | 61⭐ | |
 | ClojuRust | A proof of concept version of Clojure in Rust. | Rust | 55⭐ |
| Gojure | A compiler from Clojure to Go. | Go | 51⭐ | |
| Crisp | Lisp dialect implemented with Crystal | Crystal | 47⭐ | |
| Venice | Venice, a Clojure inspired sandboxed Lisp dialect with Java interoperability serving as a safe scripting language. | Java | 44⭐ |
| clojurust | Clojure and Rust | Rust | 44⭐ | |
| Gloat | Glojure AOT Tool | Clojure | 41⭐ |
| ClojureRust | Clojure to Rust compiler | Rust | 40⭐ | |
| Jolt 🔗 | A Clojure compiler implemented on top of Janet | Janet | 35⭐ |
| Magic | Experimental typed JVM Lisp inspired by Clojure | Java | 34⭐ | |
| Javelin | Javelin is a dialect of Lisp. It is designed to be an embedded language (minimal Lisp for the Java Virtual Machine). | Java | 30⭐ | |
| Sheaf 🔗 | A functional language for machine learning. Inspired by Clojure, compiled to GPUs. | Rust | 29⭐ |
| FOL | HTML | 24⭐ | ||
| go-joker 🔗 | A personal twist on the original Clojure interpreter and linter, slightly mad, Go-ing places | Go | 22⭐ |
| Beagle | a typed authoring layer for agent-written code | Racket | 21⭐ | |
| mino 🔗 | An embeddable Lisp written in C99. | C | 18⭐ | |
| ClojuRS | A fun clojure implementation in Rust | Rust | 17⭐ | |
 | Cloje | A clone of Clojure built atop Scheme/Lisp | Clojure | 17⭐ |
| Closhure | Lisp for .NET | C# | 10⭐ | |
| Swish | A Clojure inspired Lisp written by Claude Code in Swift. For embedding or compiling to Swift. | Swift | 10⭐ | |
| Kiso 🔗 | ClojureScript-to-JavaScript compiler in TypeScript. Zero dependencies. | TypeScript | 9⭐ |
| Lemma 🔗 | A Lisp designed to integrate with Lua. | Lua | 9⭐ | |
 | Charon 🔗 | Charon is a functional, LISP flavoured language that compiles to Lua. | TypeScript | 7⭐ |
| Cljam 🔗 | Clojure interpreter with a tokenizer, reader, macro expander, evaluator, incremental compiler, vite plugin, nREPL server compatible with calva on vscode, embedded browser REPL, CLI compatible with node and bun as host | TypeScript | 7⭐ | |
| clojure-rt | C++ | 6⭐ | ||
| Toccata | This is the Toccata compiler and core library. Start here. | C | 6⭐ | |
| clojure-metal | Implementation of Clojure running on native code. | Clojure | 6⭐ | |
 | Rusjure | A compiler and a programming language highly inspired by Clojure. | Rust | 4⭐ |
| ClojureFnl | Fennel | 4⭐ | ||
| Bars 🔗 | Bars - systems programming language with Clojure syntax | Rust | 3⭐ | |
| Clarp | [Cl]ojure runtime for C Sh[arp] | C# | 2⭐ | |
| clojure-py | Clojure core on Python 3.14t via PyO3 | Python | 1⭐ | |
| Bara Lang ↗ | Bara lang - Clojure for nim language | Nim | 1⭐ | |
| Lispery | Simple embeddable LISP implementation for .NET inspired by Schemy and Clojure. | C# | 0⭐ |
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