janet
cloture
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janet
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Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf]
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.
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Ask HN: A Lisp with Cargo/NPM like build system?
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.
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Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
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/
- Janet Language
- Why Fennel?
- Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
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Sharpscript: Lisp for Scripting
One might also check out Janet for quick scripting tasks.
https://janet-lang.org
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Red Programming Language
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.
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Systems Programming with Racket
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/
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how did you finally reach Lisp enlightenment?
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.
cloture
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Trouble defining a Lisp-1 DSL in Common Lisp
For reference, and to show that it's possible, you might be interested in how I did this for Cloture (Clojure in CL): https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture/blob/master/clojure/core.lisp
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The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure
Why not use something like https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture (a Clojure "adapter" that runs on Common Lisp) if you want that?
- Cloture – Implementation of Clojure in Common Lisp
- ClojureRS – Clojure interpreter implemented in Rust
- Clojure – Differences with Other Lisps
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Clojure, but without the JVM?
Clojure on Common Lisp: https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture
- Seeking clojure-styled concurrency operators for common lisp
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On Repl-Driven Programming
It does not offer the full experience. It has no breakloop and no ability to browse and edit the live running environment. It has no ability to rummage around inside the dynamic environment of a suspended function call, much less to redefine the suspended function or the types of its parameters, nor to restart the suspended call. Indeed, the JVM makes some of that stuff really inconvenient to do.
You cannot do everything from the Clojure repl in the way you can from a Common Lisp repl or from a Smalltalk worksheet.
I don't know that the Clojure language design forbids it; you might, for example, implement Clojure on top of a Lisp or Smalltalk environment and hook up their tools to Clojure through its interop. That might work, and ruricolist has been working on such an implementation called Cloture:
https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture
But existing Clojure implementations don't have the full set of tools.
What are some alternatives?
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
clojerl - Clojure for the Erlang VM (unofficial)
get-started-with-clojure - Learn Clojure and Interactive Programming – Zero install
clj-chrome-devtools - Clojure API for controlling a Chrome DevTools remote
babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
etaoin - Pure Clojure Webdriver protocol implementation
scheme-for-max - Max/MSP external for scripting and live coding Max with s7 Scheme Lisp
planck - Stand-alone ClojureScript REPL
ferret - Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.
ClojureRS - Clojure, implemented atop Rust (unofficial)
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
awesome-clojure-likes - Curated list of Clojure-like programming languages.