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Build Your Own Lisp
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Ask HN: How to come up with a useful, coding hobby project?
Create your own meta-circular evaluator: https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
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Learning c++
I don't know about C++ but there is this incredible course on C by learning to build your own Lisp. https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
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A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of Deep Learning
I find the best way to learn technical topics is to build a simplified version of the thing. The trick is to understand the relationship between the high level components without getting lost in the details. This high level understanding then helps inform you when you drill down into specifics.
I think this book is a shining example of that philosophy: https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/. In the book, you implement an extremely bare-bones version of lisp, but it has been invaluable in my career. I found I was able to understand nuanced language features much more quickly because I have a clear model of how programming languages are decomposed into their components.
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What can you actually do in C?
If you still want to produce a toy project in C I would suggest to build your own LISP ;-)
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How to grok PL development?
If you're after a lisp, MAL on Github (By kanaka) and https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/ are good.
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Looking for beginner resources on writing a Lisp from scratch
Build your own Lisp is cool but offloads the language grammar and the parsing to the author's mpc library, this is already way overkill for what I'd like to do.
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project ideas for sophomore year cs student
Writing a Lisp - https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
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Repost from LinkedIn. I found it quite hilarious
Lisps are also a good language if you want to know how languages work. They are very easy to make an interpreter for. There are good tutorials for that at https://github.com/kanaka/mal and https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/.
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Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]
Anyone have any input on:
https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
It's been in my bookmarks for a long time but I've never really had time to really start it. The "who is this for" page say:
"This book is for anyone wanting to learn C, or who has once wondered how to build their own programming language.".
Well, I'm fairly competent in C (but not great) but would like to get a glimpse of what it's like to build my own language. Is it worth the time?
janet
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Ask HN: A Lisp with Cargo/NPM like build system?
You might be looking for: https://janet-lang.org/
It comes with a build tool `jpm` which installs dependencies globally by default, but you can have it be installed in your project folder as well.
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Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
I like Clojure, but I never had any good opportunities to use it other than for a few small hobby projects. It is unfortunate that it is so huge with tons of dependencies and no simpler native implementation. I started looking at various LISPs and Schemes to find something lighter to use instead and ended up settling for Janet that I think is Clojure-like enough to be comfortable to use, but in a small native binary with no dependencies and can be embedded in other native programs. I am sure for big, real, projects that Clojure makes more sense, but for my hobby projects and scripts I do not think I will install it again. I am still happy for the things I learned from learning Clojure. It was a real eye-opener for an old OO-programmer.
- Janet Language
- Why Fennel?
- Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
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Sharpscript: Lisp for Scripting
One might also check out Janet for quick scripting tasks.
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Red Programming Language
Thanks!
I thought about another multiplatform, homoiconic, highly compact language: https://janet-lang.org/ (takes 803 kb on my machine).
It has no types though.
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Systems Programming with Racket
Racket is great, and if you like it you might find Rash interesting:
Janet and Gerbil Scheme are also worth a look:
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how did you finally reach Lisp enlightenment?
Point here is that, for instance Janet language does not have cons / pair type but tuple (and so is lispoid, not lisp), but clearly this is sufficient for macros & hence seamless language construction: all you need is to be a lispoid although being a lisp gives another useful feature.
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fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C
If this project interests you but is a bit more minimal than you need, the Janet language is a slightly-less but still pretty lightweight embeddable Lisp with a strong library and community: https://janet-lang.org/
What are some alternatives?
lisp-in-go - A Common Lisp-like Lisp-1 in Go with TCO and partially hygienic macros
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
ulisp-zero - A pared-down version of uLisp for hackers.
get-started-with-clojure - Learn Clojure and Interactive Programming – Zero install
vocabs2 - C++ implementation of drones simulation with velocity obstacles and wireless system
babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
lis.py - Small lisp interpreter in Python
scheme-for-max - Max/MSP external for scripting and live coding Max with s7 Scheme Lisp
mal - mal - Make a Lisp
ferret - Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.
ComposableRegex - Build out composable regular expressions from simple sub blocks in a BNF type syntax. Check http://composableregex.apphb.com/ for a demo
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library