dale vs wcl

dale

Lisp-flavoured C (by tomhrr)

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By wadehennessey

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dale		wcl
	Project
5	Mentions	2
1,016	Stars	75
-	Growth	-
3.8	Activity	10.0
11 days ago	Latest Commit	about 7 years ago
C++	Language	Common Lisp
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	-

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dale

Posts with mentions or reviews of dale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.

Is there a language with lisp syntax but C semantics?
7 projects | /r/lisp | 1 Mar 2023

There's Dale, Extempore (more particularly, XTlang which is the statically-typed part of Extempore), Carp, and one more that I can't remember right now that basically maps to C++, more-or-less directly.
What Makes Lisp Unique?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2022

>However, there are LISP flavored versions of C
For anyone interested the example given is from https://github.com/tomhrr/dale
Useful lesser-used languages?
9 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 23 Sep 2022

Dale: Basically C, but using Lisp syntax, support for macros, which might segfault, not beginner friendly at all.
A language you feel the most productive with?
6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 9 Jul 2022

Carp, Lux and Dale are 3 I'm familiar with.There's also Dylan, though that one dropped its parentheses. But if we go by the brackets, technically, we can argue that any expression-based languages is a Lisp. I once wrote a Lisp to JS transpile whose output had more parens than the input. :)
Best Lisp/scheme for OSDev?
8 projects | /r/lisp | 12 Jun 2022

Dale

wcl

Posts with mentions or reviews of wcl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.

Is there a language with lisp syntax but C semantics?
7 projects | /r/lisp | 1 Mar 2023

Github: https://github.com/wadehennessey/wcl
LISP for UNIX-like systems
6 projects | /r/lisp | 18 Dec 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dale and wcl you can also consider the following projects:

lux - The Lux Programming Language

sxc - sxc is an 'S-Expression C' transpiler for generating C code using macros written in Common Lisp

Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.

Petalisp - Elegant High Performance Computing

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

FFTW - DO NOT CHECK OUT THESE FILES FROM GITHUB UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. (See below.)

opendylan - Open Dylan compiler and IDE

cakelisp - Metaprogrammable, hot-reloadable, no-GC language for high perf programs (especially games), with seamless C/C++ interop

c-mera - Next-level syntax for C-like languages :)

extempore - A cyber-physical programming environment

LCC - Lisp C Compiler, Lisp-like syntax for writing C code in addition of some forms and pointer managements