From eb0d72422975122599111871b321ba0acef247df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: davidnolen <david.nolen@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2026 11:41:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] direct meta field access of IMeta instances

---
 src/main/cljs/cljs/core.cljs | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/cljs/cljs/core.cljs b/src/main/cljs/cljs/core.cljs
index fc7dd7819..100e7b066 100644
--- a/src/main/cljs/cljs/core.cljs
+++ b/src/main/cljs/cljs/core.cljs
@@ -2185,9 +2185,11 @@ reduces them without incurring seq initialization"
 (defn meta
   "Returns the metadata of obj, returns nil if there is no metadata."
   [o]
-  (when (and (not (nil? o))
-             (satisfies? IMeta o))
-    (-meta o)))
+  (when (some? o)
+    (if (instance? IMeta o)
+      (.-_meta o)
+      (when (satisfies? IMeta o)
+        (-meta o)))))
 
 (defn peek
   "For a list or queue, same as first, for a vector, same as, but much