wat-js
maru
| wat-js | maru | |
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| 4 | 6 | |
| 257 | 180 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 2.7 | |
| over 6 years ago | 6 months ago | |
| JavaScript | Common Lisp | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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wat-js
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C Is Not a Low-level Language – Your computer is not a fast PDP-11
Well Forth is possibly the most minimal VM over a platform, as evidenced by openfirmware.
It does have problems scaling though, in that if you've seen one Forth, you've seen one Forth ie. The variations required to fit a platform make them semi-incompatible.
That's not to say that a more lispy Forth wouldn't be useful though, in that a concatenative syntax allows us to pass custom datastructures around like APL, and CPS (delimited continuations with lexically scoped dynamic binding would come from the lisp side (see https://github.com/manuel/wat-js).
Memory management in Forth can handle multiple memory types eg. https://flashforth.com/ so adding something like ref counting (https://github.com/zigalenarcic/minilisp/blob/main/main.c) to handle the dynamic list side of things might mesh well.
In any case, if you're looking for a self hosting lisp that runs on bare metal, https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru has been out for a few years.
- The Workflow Pattern
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Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional programming language?
https://github.com/manuel/wat-js
If you have delimited continuations then you can construct coroutines/threads/await/async, promises etc.
I guess that this might be suitable for many scenarios thanks to nodejs, but the runtimes it relies on are not exactly small.
- The Mysteries of Lisp (2015)
maru
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C Is Not a Low-level Language – Your computer is not a fast PDP-11
Well Forth is possibly the most minimal VM over a platform, as evidenced by openfirmware.
It does have problems scaling though, in that if you've seen one Forth, you've seen one Forth ie. The variations required to fit a platform make them semi-incompatible.
That's not to say that a more lispy Forth wouldn't be useful though, in that a concatenative syntax allows us to pass custom datastructures around like APL, and CPS (delimited continuations with lexically scoped dynamic binding would come from the lisp side (see https://github.com/manuel/wat-js).
Memory management in Forth can handle multiple memory types eg. https://flashforth.com/ so adding something like ref counting (https://github.com/zigalenarcic/minilisp/blob/main/main.c) to handle the dynamic list side of things might mesh well.
In any case, if you're looking for a self hosting lisp that runs on bare metal, https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru has been out for a few years.
- Maru - a tiny self-hosting lisp dialect. Developed as part of Alan Kay's Fundamentals of New Computing.
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About making a self hosting programming language
Take a look at Maru. The github project has links to other similar projects.
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Why can't there be a LISP dialect/system that directly translates to optimal machine code?
That's the idea behind the Maru Project. It's a really cool concept and more people should know about it.
- lisp but small and low level?Does it make sense?
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SubX: A minimalist assembly language for a subset of the x86 ISA
Here's another interesting one I just noticed:
https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru/blob/maru.10/source/a...
What are some alternatives?
minilisp - A small lisp interpreter with reference counting memory management aimed at interactive game development
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
cc65 - cc65 - a freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems
clasp - clasp Common Lisp environment
conductor - Conductor is a microservices orchestration engine.
femtolisp - a lightweight, robust, scheme-like lisp implementation
wekan-node20 - Database connect test with Node.js 20, Bun and Deno. Creating single executeables with Bun and Deno.
flpc - Forth Lisp Python Continuum: A small highly dynamic self-bootstrapping language
Kind - A next-gen functional language
sectorlisp - Bootstrapping LISP in a Boot Sector
cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library
mu - Soul of a tiny new machine. More thorough tests → More comprehensible and rewrite-friendly software → More resilient society.