lisp vs lisp-cheney

lisp

Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter (by robpike)

A mini Lisp in 1k lines of C with Cheney's copying garbage collector, explained. Includes over 40 built-in Lisp primitives, floating point, strings, closures with lexical scope, macros, proper tail recursion, exceptions, execution tracing, file loading, a copying garbage collector and REPL. (by Robert-van-Engelen)

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lisp		lisp-cheney
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2	Mentions	1
946	Stars	31
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	4.0
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Go	Language	C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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lisp

Posts with mentions or reviews of lisp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-15.

For the LISP 1.5 mainframe fans here...
4 projects | /r/mainframe | 15 Dec 2022

sure thing https://github.com/robpike/lisp
Do you recommend learning go for an interpreter project?
5 projects | /r/golang | 9 Aug 2021

Among the listed, Racket stands out to me - it's really on point for the problem, things Racket are organized around implementing languages inside of Racket. That said, Go should be totally fine. I might recommend perusing https://github.com/robpike/lisp, https://github.com/robpike/ivy, there are some talks about these on YouTube. The style is really

lisp-cheney

Posts with mentions or reviews of lisp-cheney. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-18.

Mini Lisp in under 1k lines of C: Cheney or mark-sweep GC, which is best?
3 projects | /r/lisp | 18 Sep 2022

A mini Lisp with Cheney GC

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lisp and lisp-cheney you can also consider the following projects:

Crafting Interpreters - Repository for the book "Crafting Interpreters"

yoctolisp - Tiny Scheme-like Lisp interpreter written in a weekend

ivy - The Unified AI Framework

bdwgc - The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (bdwgc, also known as bdw-gc, boehm-gc, libgc)

go-parsing - A Multi-Package Go Repo Focused on Text Parsing, with Lexers, Parsers, and Related Utils

janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm

ivy - ivy, an APL-like calculator

tinylisp - Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself. Includes 20 Lisp primitives, garbage collection and REPL. Includes tail-call optimized versions for speed and reduced memory use.

pyright-python - Python command line wrapper for pyright, a static type checker

lisp - A mini Lisp in 1k lines of C with garbage collector, explained. Includes over 40 built-in Lisp primitives, floating point, strings, closures with lexical scope, macros, proper tail recursion, exceptions, execution tracing, file loading, a mark-sweep/compacting garbage collector and REPL.

IchigoLisp - LISP 1.5(-ish) implementation in WebAssembly

swcl - Steel Wool Common Lisp