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LadyLua
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I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
Exactly my thought when I started working on LadyLua https://github.com/tongson/LadyLua
- Show HN: Write Dockerfiles in Lua
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Hacker News top posts: Apr 8, 2021
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- Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter
janet
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Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf]
Seems like a perfect use-case for Janet. (https://janet-lang.org/) A fast minimal VM like Lua, but even more extensible than Lua by being a "Lisp" with macro and C extension capabilities. Not a true Lisp, it's very pragmatic and performance-oriented. But it keeps the good stuff.
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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.
https://janet-lang.org/
- 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.
https://janet-lang.org
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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:
https://rash-lang.org/
Janet and Gerbil Scheme are also worth a look:
https://janet-lang.org/
https://cons.io/
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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.
What are some alternatives?
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
gopher-json - a simple JSON encoder/decoder for gopher-lua
get-started-with-clojure - Learn Clojure and Interactive Programming – Zero install
libpeer - WebRTC Library for IoT/Embedded Device using C
babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
cpufetch - Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool
scheme-for-max - Max/MSP external for scripting and live coding Max with s7 Scheme Lisp
golua - A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go
ferret - Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.
Ory Keto - Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.