tgc vs cakelisp

tgc

A Tiny Garbage Collector for C (by orangeduck)

cakelisp

Metaprogrammable, hot-reloadable, no-GC language for high perf programs (especially games), with seamless C/C++ interop (by makuto)

Code Generation c-code-generator lisp-dialect Lisp Macros Game development

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tgc		cakelisp
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2	Mentions	11
929	Stars	327
-	Growth	-
1.9	Activity	7.2
10 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
C	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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tgc

Posts with mentions or reviews of tgc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-18.

LISP for UNIX-like systems
6 projects | /r/lisp | 18 Dec 2022
orangeduck/tgc: A Tiny Garbage Collector for C
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2021

cakelisp

Posts with mentions or reviews of cakelisp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-18.

LISP for UNIX-like systems
6 projects | /r/lisp | 18 Dec 2022

You might be interested in CakeLisp.
Best Lisp/scheme for OSDev?
8 projects | /r/lisp | 12 Jun 2022

Cakelisp
Interesting or distinctive lisps?
13 projects | /r/lisp | 29 Nov 2021

"Cakelisp is a metaprogrammable, hot-reloadable, non-garbage-collected language ideal for high performance, iteratively-developed programs (especially games). It is a transpiler which generates C/C++ from an S-expression syntax. Cakelisp takes some inspiration from Lisp, but is not compatible and does not aspire to become 'a Lisp'."
How about https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/I-unsound? I think everyone saying Rust is "high quality" or whatever is delusional until there are zero bugs on their GitHub. I also don't want to know about your 3 year old's ugly drawings.
2 projects | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 30 Aug 2021

This is a bug. Literally unusable.
Suggestions for a functional language for videogames
6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 20 Apr 2021

Also look into Gamelisp's state machines which are an awesome way of modeling stateful in-game objects. Cakelisp is another cool language made specifically for gamedev.
Hitting a wall: the importance of learning without a game engine
2 projects | /r/gameenginedevs | 26 Mar 2021

I wrote a language primarily to make that sort of feature easy to create, via compile time code generation and execution. See Cakelisp.
Is there any c lisp dialect with features of nim or ziglang
3 projects | /r/lisp | 4 Mar 2021

cakelisp has no GC and is meant for games programming.
Cakelisp A Programming Language For Games
1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 23 Dec 2020

I've added a roadmap with items from my to-do list. I'm happy to receive ideas for features not on that list as well :).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tgc and cakelisp you can also consider the following projects:

lobster - The Lobster Programming Language

phel-lang - Phel is a functional programming language that transpiles to PHP. A Lisp dialect inspired by Clojure and Janet.

liz - Lisp-flavored general-purpose programming language (based on Zig)

ulisp-arm - A version of the Lisp programming language for ARM-based boards.

magnum - Lightweight and modular C++11 graphics middleware for games and data visualization

cl-comfy-6502 - Baker's COMFY compiler for the 6502 ported to Common Lisp

urn - Yet another Lisp variant which compiles to Lua

FunctionalProgrammingInGames - Functional Programming in Games Resources

Xelmish - XNA + Elmish - 2D game development framework with F#

Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.

medley - The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Wiki, Issues are here. Other repositories include maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources)

Nu - Repository hosting the open-source Nu Game Engine and related projects.