nightshade vs jscl

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nightshade		jscl
	Project
1	Mentions	7
11	Stars	872
-	Growth	0.5%
0.0	Activity	5.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Common Lisp	Language	Common Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	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.

nightshade

Posts with mentions or reviews of nightshade. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Nightshade - a public domain Lisp
1 project | /r/lisp | 8 Jan 2022

Here's a Lisp I derived from CMUCL 18c around 2006: https://github.com/mattmundell/nightshade

jscl

Posts with mentions or reviews of jscl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.

All Web frontend lisp projects
10 projects | /r/lisp | 23 May 2023

JSCL - A CL-to-JS compiler designed to be self-hosting from day one. Lacks CLOS, format and loop.
jscl: A Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler bootstrapped from Common Lisp
1 project | /r/planetemacs | 17 Apr 2023
spookfox v0.3.0: Switch firefox tabs like switch-to-buffer and use common-lisp to extend Firefox side of spookfox
3 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Mar 2023

Ability to run common-lisp in the Firefox addon's context using jscl, essentially enabling extending firefox with common-lisp
Live programming Common Lisp in the web browser
1 project | /r/lisp | 6 Sep 2022
How much Lisp do you have to implement as primitives before you can implement the rest of Lisp in Lisp
3 projects | /r/lisp | 14 Feb 2022

I tagged the moment where I achieved bootstrapping in the early JSCL implementation here: https://github.com/jscl-project/jscl/blob/simple-bootstrap/ecmalisp.lisp
Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nightshade and jscl you can also consider the following projects:

breeze - Experiments on workflow with common lisp

mal - mal - Make a Lisp

weird - Generative art in Common Lisp

eisl - ISLisp interpreter/compiler

spookfox - A tinkerer's bridge b/w Emacs and Web Browser (Firefox and Chrome)

cl-wol - Wake on LAN (WoL) system for Common Lisp

cl-gen - Javascript-like generators for Common Lisp

graven-image - Portability library for better interaction and debugging of a running Common Lisp image through text REPL.

cl-gol - Game of Life in Common Lisp

reblocks - A fork of Weblocks Common Lisp web framework

biwascheme - Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript

adhoc-polymorphic-functions - A function type to dispatch on types instead of classes with partial support for dispatching on optional and keyword argument types. [Moved to: https://github.com/digikar99/polymorphic-functions]