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Mezzano
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A standalone zero-dependency Lisp for Linux
Have you made or plan to make any contributions to Mezzano (https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano) or are you mainly interested in seeing how far you can take this thing on your own?
- Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
- Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp
- Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
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Why Lisp?
>> except building compilers and OSes
SBCL is written in Lisp, yes? Except the runtime, which is C + asm.
I've heard people wrote some OSes in the past, like Genera. Or if you prefer recent attempt, try https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano. Never tried it, though.
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Help needed - new programming language
No need to.
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Dynamic, JIT-compiled language for systems programming?
Not at all. See mezzano for a notable recent example of an OS written entirely in a dynamic language.
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What help is needed for Lisp community in order to make Lisp more popular?
So..
"Why do you want to make Lisp more popular? If you were sucessful, what would be different in the world, and why is that desirable to you?"
Normally at this point I'd listen to the response, and ask more questions based on that. That would wind up with a very, very deep thread, so I'll break a cardinal rule and pre-guess at some answers.
This kind of question comes up pretty frequently. In many cases, I suspect the motivation behind the question is "Wow! Here's this cool tool I've discovered. I want to make something really useful with it. I want to do it as part of a community effort; share my excitement with others, share in their excitement, and know that what I'm making is useful because others find it desirable and are excited by it." The field could be cooking, sports, old machine tools, tiny homes, or demo scene. Its the fundemental driver for most content on HN, YouTube, Instructables, and such. It is a Good Thing.
If that is your motivator, then my suggestion is to find something that bugs you and fix it. You've already decided you're only interested in code, not other aspects. You said you preferred vim, but the emacs ecosystem has a very rich set of sharp edges that need filing off, and a rich set of tools with which to attack them.
One example: even after 50 years there's no open IDE which allows you to easily globally rename a Lisp identifier. I don't know about LispWorks or other proprietary environments, but you can't in emacs or vim do a right-click on "foo" in "(defun foo ()...)" and select a command which automatically renames it in all invocations. [Queue lots of "but you can..." replies here.] I don't think vim is up to the task of doing this internally. It would be possible in emacs; but would require a huge effort with lots of help from other people. If you emerged alive from that rabbit warren you'd join the company of Certified "How Hard Could it Be?" Mad Scientists such as Dr. "I just want to draw molecules" Meister [1] and "Wouldn't an OS in Lisp be Cool" Froggey [2].
[1] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp
[2] Mezzano https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
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Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
You might want to look at Mezzano which is an operation system written in Common Lisp https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
I haven’t tried it since moving to M1/ARM, but it is cool.
- are there emacs machines?
april
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Thinking in an Array Language
There are attempts to combine those...
April (Array Programming Re-Imagined in Lisp)
https://github.com/phantomics/april
> operations that apply to the whole array
like MAP and REDUCE, higher order functions are not really new to Lisp. In Common Lisp they are extended to vectors.
> list languages and array languages are quite different.
There are some common things like interactive use, functional flavor, etc.
- April
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A Personal History of APL (1982)
There's also April APL: https://github.com/phantomics/april
Also the array language family seems to be stronger than ever with foss: ngn/k, BQN, uiua, and of course J but as you mentioned they're all different languages.
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The C juggernaut illustrated (2012)
I love J and APL, but April takes the cake for me[1]. APL in Lisp.
I also prefer SPARK2014 instead of Rust if I am not going to use C. I've started learning Rust a few times. SPARK2014 is easier to get going for me, and it has been used to produce high-integrity software and real-world applications for over a decade, and more if you include Ada from which it sprang[2].
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Erlang: The coding language that finance forgot
The one big use case was RabbitMQ in a messaging app, not HFT. I doubt Elixir even with Nx can compete with low-level HFT code. Python DL/ML code libraries are just wrappers around C too. Maybe if BeamAsm and Nx are used Elixir could be used for more numerical or not just distributed applications.
I've programmed in Python and Julia, and when I worked at an engineering (mechanical, entertainment engineering) company, Julia was great for its similarity to Matlab. I am a self-taught engineer, so I did not get pulled into Matlab in college.
Personally, I took to Erlang, so I could write plugins for Wings3D back in the early 2000s, but I never stuck with Erlang, or Wings3D (Blender3D was my choice and I even contributed to have it go opensource way back when). I like Erlang's syntax better for some reason, although Elixir's is beautiful too. I was not a Ruby programmer, and I had delved into Haskell and Prolog, so I think Erlang made more sense to me. I think Elixir has a lot more momentum behind it than Erlang, but at the root it's Erlang, so I think I'll stick with Erlang for BEAM apps. My favorite language is April[1] (APL in Lisp), and given my love of J, would be a better fit for any finance apps I might write. I am trying to convert some of the Lisp code in this book, "Professional Automated Trading: Theory and Practice" to April.
Maybe I'll write some equivalent Elixir code to compare.
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Learn Lisp the Hard Way
I'm also very curious for hear from expert lispers. I've tried to find the sweat spot where lisp would fit better than what I already know: shell for glue and file ops, R for data munging and vis, python to not reinvent things, perl/core-utils for one liners. But before I can find the niche, I get turned off by the amount of ceremony -- or maybe just how different the state and edit/evaluate loop is.
I'm holding onto some things that make common lisp look exciting and useful (static typing[0], APL DSL[1], speed [2,3,4]) and really want to get familiar with structural editing [5]
[0] https://github.com/phantomics/april - APL dsl
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The APL Programming Language Source Code (2012)
The 2 0 at the start of the APL line above controls the mirroring behavior. The second number can be set to 0 or 1 to choose which side of the image to mirror, while the 2 sets the axis along which to mirror. This will be 1 or 2 for a raster image but this function can mirror any rank of array on any axis.
April was used to teach image filtering in a programming class for middle-schoolers, you can see a summary in this video: https://vimeo.com/504928819
For more APL-driven graphics, April's repo includes an ncurses demo featuring a convolution kernel powered by ⌺, the stencil operator: https://github.com/phantomics/april/tree/master/demos/ncurse...
- I’m trying Advent of Code in APL and Common Lisp with April
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I spent the last 2 months converting APL primitives into executable NumPy
#1: Thanks to J, I was able to get in the global Top 100 in the first day of Advent of Code. I've never done this before and I'm feeling a bit emotional. Thanks, J. #2: April 1.0 Is Released | 4 comments #3: BQNPAD — a BQN REPL with syntax highlighting and live evaluation preview | 8 comments
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APL deserves its Renaissance too
APL + Lisp =
https://github.com/phantomics/april/ and yes it is used in production©!
> What pushed the development of April really is that April is used by a hardware startup called Bloxl (of which I am the CTO). There are other users but Bloxl is the flagship application.
https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode23-andrew-sengul
Bloxl in use: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3721004/159686845-... See also the ELS conference 2022.
What are some alternatives?
mirage - MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels
BQN - An APL-like programming language. Self-hosted!
coalton - Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.
stumpwm - The Stump Window Manager
Smalltalk - By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
common-lisp-stat - Common Lisp Statistics -- based on LispStat (Tierney) but updated for Common Lisp and incorporating lessons from R (http://www.r-project.org/). See the google group for lisp stat / common lisp statistics for a mailing list.
tao-theme-emacs - tao-theme - two uncoloured color themes for EMACS
lisp-matrix - A matrix package for common lisp building on work by Mark Hoemmen, Evan Monroig, Tamas Papp and Rif.
kandria - A post-apocalyptic actionRPG. Now on Steam!
numcl - Numpy clone in Common Lisp
ChezScheme - Chez Scheme
APL - another APL derivative