Shen Language will be moving to a BSD license

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Excellent, though I fear it might be a bit too late to seriously challenge Clojure+core.typed and/or lesser degree Typed Racket. Of course Shen's type system is much more powerful, but that's probably not going to drive adoption as much as us typeful-programming weenies would like. Of course having multiple implementations running on multiple underlying platforms could turn out to be a killer feature...

This is good. The last time I downloaded an implementation it was broken. I went to mess with the copy I already have after reading this and I keep breaking the REPL.

The latest release of my fork of the Clojure port should work:

https://github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/shen.clj/releases/lates...

At this point, it's just a tidied up release of the original author's work, which stopped at Shen 8 (version 16 is the most recent). I should also note that it doesn't seem to deal with tail calls properly in some situations, so you could run into a stack overflow here and there.

Once Shen 17 is released and I've finished reading The Book of Shen, I plan to bring the Clojure port up to date.

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