Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications

• Carp

  84 5,393 0.7 Haskell

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

  

So "cons", and the associated "car" and "cdr" functions are innately the "thing" that needs to be garbage collected in Lisp-like languages.

So I immediately went to the manual, and CTRL+F'd for cons. Carp has the following restriction: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/Manual.md

> If you're calling a dynamic function (something defined with defndynamic, or a built in command) it will be executed right away. This works very much like a classic, dynamically typed Lisp interpreter. The dynamic functions are not available in compiled code! Their main usage is in macros and to programatically control your build settings.

cons, car, and cdr are all "Dynamic" functions that can only run _DURING COMPILE TIME_. Which means the GC is not needed during runtime: all garbage-collection occurs in the compiler.

• c-mera

  7 383 0.0 Common Lisp

  Next-level syntax for C-like languages :)

That's a Lisp preprocessor for a non-Lisp language.

If you program in C using the Common Lisp c-mera preprocessor, or any of the other similar systems, it's the same thing.

You're writing everything in S-exps, and the expansions use conses, but the output is C; so that of course cannot call cons at run time.

https://github.com/kiselgra/c-mera

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• janet-benchmarksgame

  1 12 0.0 Janet

  Versions of the "Computer Language Benchmarks Game" benchmarks for the Janet language.

Aha, thanks for the info. Then I believe Janet could fill a similar role. What little profiling I've seen puts them in a similar category: https://github.com/MikeBeller/janet-benchmarksgame/blob/mast...

Though I imagine it's hard to say without actually trying it.

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