hissp VS glsp

Hissp is a Python library that can compile a whole program into one Python expression.

If you want Python to be as customizable as Lissp, check out Hissp (and Hebigo).

Hissp is really cool for metaprogramming Python. There's also macropy, but it's harder to use.

I prefer https://github.com/gilch/hissp, where Hy has to use shims to pretend statements are expressions, Hissp just targets the expression subset in the first place. (though as you mentioned, hy has a lot of literature and support around it, where as you're going to have to find your own way around hissp)

No shortage of options, e.g. Dg, Mochi, Coconut, and Hebigo (based on Hissp[1]).

[1]: https://github.com/gilch/hissp

If you want Lisp metaprogramming plus Python ecosystem, check out Hissp

Hissp is really interesting. Read through the docs and you'll understand Python more deeply. It works well with Toolz and Pyrsistent.

3. Typed Racket

I almost used https://gamelisp.rs/ for a project but the nightly feature it needs broke and it's no longer maintained, glad to see something similar arise! You might want to consider adopting their choice of VecDeque as a list replacement, I think it makes a lot more sense than naive linked lists on modern machines.

Varied employment history has left me with great soft skills and a broad grab-bag of technical skills, mostly leaning towards high-performance systems programming. Major solo projects have included the scripting language GameLisp, a 2D game engine, and a novel computer vision library.

"Gamelisp is a scripting language for Rust game development." Feature list from the page: No garbage collection pauses (runs gc once per frame), Seamless Rust API, Memory-safe, Feature-rich ("Pattern‑matching, iterators, coroutines, macros..."), Easy entity scripting.

I'm using Rust to build a host program, and the actual game logic written in GameLisp on top of the bracket-lib. I only have superficial knowledge of Rust, 0 lisp experience, and never embedded a language before, so that's a lot to learn and implement at the same time.

I'm not sure I'll go to the end of the 8 weeks, but I'll make that as fun/interesting as possible and (try to) use GameLisp!

I feel qualified to answer this! GameLisp was once implemented with highly unsafe code, but later on I reimplemented it using only safe code, with a very small amount of optional unsafety behind a feature flag. GameLisp's performance is currently somewhere between Lua and Python when unsafe code is switched on, or a bit slower than Python when unsafe code is switched off.

It took a lot of wrestling with the type system, but I've managed to wring out several API improvements for version 0.2. I already considered GameLisp's Rust API to be best-in-class, and this release polishes it even further: