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ecl
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ECL FFI: Eval load-foreign-library before load in same file?
Newbie FFI question. I ran into this issue, posted it on ECL: https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/710
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Parenscript
Thanks!
I suspect the work is still ongoing. But maybe not on priority.
This diff from around 3 months ago shows it's likely possible to run it in the browser currently but with a lot of caveats (pretty great nonetheless!).
https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/commit/6af4b...
- Trying to build an android application with SBCL [help wanted]
- ECL targetting WASM via Emscripten - preliminary support
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Implementation comparison
The correct one would be https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl
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Using ECL (or alternative?) to generate a shared library that works as plugin w/ C-based application
building ECL on MSVC-based Windows seems like a nightmare, or possibly I am messing something up: https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/677
- ECL - Embeddable Common-Lisp
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L – A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems (1995) [pdf]
Rather than flogging your blog, it would be better to post the link to the free source code https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl which is linked from the wikipedia page.
Fennel
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Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect
Eh it's not just luajit and luajit didn't create that problem either. It's a symptom of lua actually succeeding at its design goal of being easily embedded as an extension language. A significant number of incompatible runtimes are more popular than the most recent puc lua, including I believe the older official lua 5.2 released in 2011.
I've done a fair bit of professional lua development and I don't think I've ever written standalone up-to-date puc lua except maybe for some tooling & scripts. It's such a small language and used in such a way that the runtime, distribution method, and available APIs have much more impact on your use (and compatibility) than the version.
Virtually everyone shipping a lua environment is also shipping changes to it that make it a unique target, if only extensions to the standard library. This is why I think syntax layer-only approach like fennel's is the correct choice for improving on lua. It mirrors lua's runtime semantics exactly, and allows you to access the implementation peculiars on their own terms and so can just be run on time of any lua system.
https://fennel-lang.org
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LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
Just learned about https://fennel-lang.org/ , could have probably used that as well to avoid Lua.
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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer
> I’m positive that there is a Lispy language out there (actually in existence, or the aether) that is appropriate for embedded work, but the constraints of the target make it difficult to envision.
Perhaps Fennel* fits the bill?
* https://fennel-lang.org/
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The Future of the Vim Project
I've also seen neovim plugins written in fennel [0], so if you want something lispy, that's possible now.
[0]: a Lisp that compiles to Lua, https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
- Qual a linguagem que vocês mais gostam de programar?
- Can I use elixir as the scripting language of my game engine?
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TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles down to Vimscript
Something similar: Fennel (https://fennel-lang.org/) is a lisp that compiles into Lua, which nvim can use as plugins, so you can write nvim plugins in a lisp. Aniseed (https://github.com/Olical/aniseed) makes this really easy.
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Announcing automation-service: write and schedule home automation scripts in Lua
If you want a more FP language on the Lua runtime, you might be interested in Fennel. I wrote a post about adding Fennel compiler to a hslua interpreter a while back, which might be useful for you.
- 916 Days of Emacs
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What's your opinion on Lua programming language?
There's fennel if you're a fan of LISP syntax. I like embedding lua because it's light and easy and doesn't re-engineer itself every six months like python; but I agree, the lua syntax certainly is fugly.
What are some alternatives?
ulisp - A version of the Lisp programming language for ATmega-based Arduino boards.
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
nesper - Program the ESP32 with Nim! Wrappers around ESP-IDF API's.
urn - Yet another Lisp variant which compiles to Lua
mir - A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR
nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP
fe - A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C
Lua-RTOS-ESP32 - Lua RTOS for ESP32
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.
lua-languages - Languages that compile to Lua
abuse - Abuse (1995) by Crack dot Com
webassembly-lua - Write and compile WebAssembly code with Lua