godot-jvm VS janet

You obviously know this since you linked a Swift bindings project, but for others reading who may not be aware: Godot officially supports multiple languages ("GDScript, C#, VisualScript, and C++ and C via its GDNative technology"[1]), but other languages are supported by the community.

In particular, a sibling comment mentions Kotlin. The docs[2] link to a project that adds Kotlin bindings https://github.com/utopia-rise/godot-kotlin-jvm

[1]https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

There are bindings for godot btw, native and jvm ones

Not really. We started one just now (https://github.com/utopia-rise/godot-kotlin-jvm-demo) but there's not much in it yet. A better starting point (though a bit harder to understand at first) is the harness folder in the repo for now: https://github.com/utopia-rise/godot-kotlin-jvm/tree/master/harness

The gradle dependencies are published to mavenCentral and the prebuilt engine as well as the prebuilt export templates can be found in the github release here.

Please read through the whole Pre-Alpha instructions page (https://github.com/utopia-rise/godot-jvm/blob/master/docs/src/doc/pre-alpha.md) to see what's working and what's not and how to get started.

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.

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.

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/

One might also check out Janet for quick scripting tasks.

https://janet-lang.org

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.

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/

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.