paren-face VS macro-lisp

Alternative using Emacs: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face

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).

There is paren-face-mode that can dim the parentheses, especially useful until your mind gets used to lisps.

In a similar idea, you can also make them less visible, so indentation strikes more: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face/

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.

If you are using emacs, you might find paren-face-mode useful

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

You can already have both: https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/macro-lisp

Via a lisp macro?

Rust macros can make the language look like anything, even lisp: https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/macro-lisp

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:

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)