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- Give me your ideas and hints
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What type of projects is Racket best suited for?
There is a new addition to the racket family; ‘Zuo: A Tiny Racket for Scripting’ that is also suitable embedding in another application.
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Zuo: A Tiny Racket for Scripting
https://github.com/racket/zuo/blob/main/local/tree.zuo is a pretty good example.
It’s nothing like Bash; it’s a Lisp dialect.
The obvious comparison is Lua, which is generally the standard embedded language people use when a scripting language needs to be tiny. I compared its size; Zuo is 55% the size of Lua, so apples to apples, Zua is only a little over half the size of Lua. On the other hand, Lua uses a Pascal like syntax which is a good deal more Bash like than Zuo.
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New Racket Build System
Looks like the build system will be using Zuo.
https://github.com/racket/zuo/
janet
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Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf]
Seems like a perfect use-case for Janet. (https://janet-lang.org/) A fast minimal VM like Lua, but even more extensible than Lua by being a "Lisp" with macro and C extension capabilities. Not a true Lisp, it's very pragmatic and performance-oriented. But it keeps the good stuff.
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Ask HN: A Lisp with Cargo/NPM like build system?
You might be looking for: https://janet-lang.org/
It comes with a build tool `jpm` which installs dependencies globally by default, but you can have it be installed in your project folder as well.
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Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
I like Clojure, but I never had any good opportunities to use it other than for a few small hobby projects. It is unfortunate that it is so huge with tons of dependencies and no simpler native implementation. I started looking at various LISPs and Schemes to find something lighter to use instead and ended up settling for Janet that I think is Clojure-like enough to be comfortable to use, but in a small native binary with no dependencies and can be embedded in other native programs. I am sure for big, real, projects that Clojure makes more sense, but for my hobby projects and scripts I do not think I will install it again. I am still happy for the things I learned from learning Clojure. It was a real eye-opener for an old OO-programmer.
https://janet-lang.org/
- Janet Language
- Why Fennel?
- Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
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Sharpscript: Lisp for Scripting
One might also check out Janet for quick scripting tasks.
https://janet-lang.org
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Red Programming Language
Thanks!
I thought about another multiplatform, homoiconic, highly compact language: https://janet-lang.org/ (takes 803 kb on my machine).
It has no types though.
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Systems Programming with Racket
Racket is great, and if you like it you might find Rash interesting:
https://rash-lang.org/
Janet and Gerbil Scheme are also worth a look:
https://janet-lang.org/
https://cons.io/
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how did you finally reach Lisp enlightenment?
Point here is that, for instance Janet language does not have cons / pair type but tuple (and so is lispoid, not lisp), but clearly this is sufficient for macros & hence seamless language construction: all you need is to be a lispoid although being a lisp gives another useful feature.
What are some alternatives?
racket-r7rs - An implementation of R7RS in Racket
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
vonuvoli-scheme - vonuvoli Scheme -- an R7RS interpreter written in Rust focused on systems programming and scripting (i.e. processes, file-system, etc.) with performance and safety in mind
get-started-with-clojure - Learn Clojure and Interactive Programming – Zero install
racket - The Racket repository
babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
scheme-for-max - Max/MSP external for scripting and live coding Max with s7 Scheme Lisp
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ferret - Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
fennel-cljlib - Port of clojure.core namespace to Fennel (mirror)