Carp
A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications. (by carp-lang)
cakelisp
Metaprogrammable, hot-reloadable, no-GC language for high perf programs (especially games), with seamless C/C++ interop (by makuto)
| Carp | cakelisp | |
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| 85 | 11 | |
| 5,393 | 327 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 0.7 | 7.2 | |
| about 1 year ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Haskell | C++ | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Carp
Posts with mentions or reviews of Carp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-08.
- The search for easier safe systems programming
- Carp: A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications
- How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)
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Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language
Carp - https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp - "A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications." where it's "Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood".
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Ask HN: Looking for statically typed, No-GC and compiled Lisp/scheme
Looking for a personal project so open-source would be great, but maturity/production readiness is not really a factor.
The only significant thing i can find so far is https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp.
Anything notable that i might have missed ?
- NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
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Lisp in Space
Not CL, but there is ulisp (http://www.ulisp.com/) for microcontrollers, supposed to be really tiny, and there is Carp (https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp) which is without a GC so seems suitable for real-time stuff.
- Carp
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Yet nobody questions ABAP, Lua, Julia, Groovy or Scala, both of them are under Lisp in TIOBE Index
by their powers combined
- Good languages for writing compilers in?
cakelisp
Posts with mentions or reviews of cakelisp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-18.
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LISP for UNIX-like systems
You might be interested in CakeLisp.
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Best Lisp/scheme for OSDev?
Cakelisp
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Interesting or distinctive lisps?
"Cakelisp is a metaprogrammable, hot-reloadable, non-garbage-collected language ideal for high performance, iteratively-developed programs (especially games). It is a transpiler which generates C/C++ from an S-expression syntax. Cakelisp takes some inspiration from Lisp, but is not compatible and does not aspire to become 'a Lisp'."
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How about https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/I-unsound? I think everyone saying Rust is "high quality" or whatever is delusional until there are zero bugs on their GitHub. I also don't want to know about your 3 year old's ugly drawings.
This is a bug. Literally unusable.
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Suggestions for a functional language for videogames
Also look into Gamelisp's state machines which are an awesome way of modeling stateful in-game objects. Cakelisp is another cool language made specifically for gamedev.
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Hitting a wall: the importance of learning without a game engine
I wrote a language primarily to make that sort of feature easy to create, via compile time code generation and execution. See Cakelisp.
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Is there any c lisp dialect with features of nim or ziglang
cakelisp has no GC and is meant for games programming.
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Cakelisp A Programming Language For Games
I've added a roadmap with items from my to-do list. I'm happy to receive ideas for features not on that list as well :).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Carp and cakelisp you can also consider the following projects:
awesome-lisp-companies - Awesome Lisp Companies
lobster - The Lobster Programming Language
sectorlisp - Bootstrapping LISP in a Boot Sector
phel-lang - Phel is a functional programming language that transpiles to PHP. A Lisp dialect inspired by Clojure and Janet.
ferret - Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.
liz - Lisp-flavored general-purpose programming language (based on Zig)
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
ulisp-arm - A version of the Lisp programming language for ARM-based boards.
femtolisp - a lightweight, robust, scheme-like lisp implementation
magnum - Lightweight and modular C++11 graphics middleware for games and data visualization
hy - A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
cl-comfy-6502 - Baker's COMFY compiler for the 6502 ported to Common Lisp