janet

A dynamic language and bytecode vm (by janet-lang)

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janet reviews and mentions

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  • Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf]
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2024
    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.
  • Ask HN: A Lisp with Cargo/NPM like build system?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2024
    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.

  • Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
    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
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2023
  • Why Fennel?
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
  • Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2023
  • Sharpscript: Lisp for Scripting
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2023
    One might also check out Janet for quick scripting tasks.

    https://janet-lang.org

  • Red Programming Language
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023
    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.

  • Systems Programming with Racket
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2023
    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/

  • how did you finally reach Lisp enlightenment?
    1 project | /r/lisp | 15 Jun 2023
    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.
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janet-lang/janet is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of janet is C.


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