macro-lisp
Lisp-like DSL for Rust language (by JunSuzukiJapan)
paren-face
A face dedicated to lisp parentheses (by tarsius)
| macro-lisp | paren-face | |
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| 10 | 8 | |
| 416 | 154 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.9 | 4.4 | |
| 11 months ago | 19 days ago | |
| Rust | Emacs Lisp | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
macro-lisp
Posts with mentions or reviews of macro-lisp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-17.
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Bare minimum atw-style K interpreter for learning purposes
Rust’s macro system is safe and hygienic, people have implemented lisps in it. I just did a google search to find an example, so I have no idea how well supported this is, https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/macro-lisp
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Lust 🦞
You can already have both: https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/macro-lisp
- What would be your “perfect” programming language?
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"RIIR"
Via a lisp macro?
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In theory, is it possible to bundle a rust-to-rust transpiler with rustc in order to make "breaking" language changes, without actually breaking anything? And how would you prove the accuracy of such a system?
Rust macros can make the language look like anything, even lisp: https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/macro-lisp
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Lisp as an Alternative to Java
Why not get the best (?) of both worlds with the macro-lisp crate: https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/macro-lisp
A small snippet from the project's examples shows minimal boilerplate between Rust and a native-looking Lisp experience:
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Sharing Saturday #353
After that, I'm going to go back to working on adding some scripting. My attempts at making a Lisp in Rust failed spectacularly, but when trying to find a ready made replacement that's not too big (so not RustPython and not Rhai or Dyon) I found mentions of DSL, which are usually Rust macros, which led me to https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/macro-lisp (single file, circa 400 lines, that does basically the whole job I want, i.e. being able to call Rust functions when I need them, e.g. from an in-game console)
paren-face
Posts with mentions or reviews of paren-face.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-03.
- paren-face: A face dedicated to lisp parentheses
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Script for merging fonts to create lighter ()[]{} brackets
Alternative using Emacs: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face
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prism.el: New feature: colorize parens distinctly (e.g. fade into background)
In the spirit of u/tarsius_'s paren-face, I just pushed a new feature to prism.el: parens can be colorized distinctly from other text, so they can be, e.g. faded out into the background (or made to stand out more, if you like).
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Practical questions from a lisp beginner
There is paren-face-mode that can dim the parentheses, especially useful until your mind gets used to lisps.
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Lisp as an Alternative to Java
In a similar idea, you can also make them less visible, so indentation strikes more: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face/
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Are Rainbow Parens helpful or distracting for beginners?
I like paren-face mode more. Reduce the contrast on the parens a bit so they're still visible but less prominent and it makes it easier to focus on the indentation, which is usually a better at-a-glance indicator of scope and intent. I ended up liking this setup so much that I eventually set it to dim [] {} and (), and to do it for all languages, not just lisps.
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If the number of arguments to a function is known, can the parentheses be implicit?
If you are using emacs, you might find paren-face-mode useful
What are some alternatives?
When comparing macro-lisp and paren-face you can also consider the following projects:
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
emacs-noob - A curated emacs set up intended to decrease the learning curve
Kind2 - A next-gen functional language [Moved to: https://github.com/Kindelia/Kind]
rainbow-identifiers - Rainbow identifier highlighting for Emacs
innit - A roguelike game where you play a micro organism inside a larger organism!
rainbow-delimiters - Emacs rainbow delimiters mode
aplus - A+ Programming Language
awesome-cl - A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.
union - Anonymous unions in Nim
rainbow-blocks - block syntax highlighting in emacs
ksimple - k/simple is a bare minimum k interpreter for learning purposes by arthur whitney
aggressive-indent-mode - Emacs minor mode that keeps your code always indented. More reliable than electric-indent-mode.
macro-lisp vs Carp
paren-face vs emacs-noob
macro-lisp vs Kind2
paren-face vs rainbow-identifiers
macro-lisp vs innit
paren-face vs rainbow-delimiters
macro-lisp vs aplus
paren-face vs awesome-cl
macro-lisp vs union
paren-face vs rainbow-blocks
macro-lisp vs ksimple
paren-face vs aggressive-indent-mode