jabla

An ML library in jank — the native Clojure dialect on LLVM with seamless C++ interop. The name is jank + nabla (∇).

jank runs Clojure natively on LLVM and can call C++/CUDA directly through the cpp/ namespace, so orchestration and native numeric compute live in one language and one REPL.

Status: early — scaffold in place, functionality not yet implemented.

Layout

src/jabla/      autograd.jank · tensor.jank · trace.jank · core.jank
test/jabla/     tests (clojure.test, which loads under jank) + test-util helpers
cpp/            C++ for BLAS/cuBLAS interop
reference/      reference implementations (vendored)
docs/           roadmap and tooling notes
experiments/    metrics & logs (gitignored contents)
data/           datasets, not committed (gitignored)
deps.edn        Clojure CLI — used to compute jank's --module-path
Makefile        wraps the jank CLI (see `make help`)

Getting started

1. Install jank — see the jank repo; packaging is in flux, so building from source is likely. make doctor reports what's on your PATH.
2. Run: make run (executes jabla.core/-main).
3. REPL: make repl, then connect over nREPL (Conjure/CIDER).
4. Tests: make test.

With no external deps, MODULE_PATH=src:test works without a JDK/Clojure CLI; you only need those once you add deps (make module-path).