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conjure
Interactive evaluation for Neovim (Clojure, Fennel, Janet, Racket, Hy, MIT Scheme, Guile, Python and more!)
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- Jank Programming Language
- Show HN: Jwno – Bring Modern Lisp Power to Your Windows Desktop
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Why Fennel?
I believe Fennel was originated by Phil Hagelberg (technomancy)
https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel-lang.org
Janet looks like is by Calvin Rose (bakpakin) https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/graphs/contributors
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Koto Programming Language
I think "implementing higher level features as extensions on top of a smaller core" is a hallmark of the Lisp family. Check out Fennel [0] or Janet [1] for two different approaches. On top of everything, Fennel is 100% Lua-compatible.
[0]: https://fennel-lang.org/
[1]: https://janet-lang.org/
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The Landscape of Lisp
> It does seem slightly abandoned though
I think in general "free-time projects" just move a bit slower. Still, it seems to get ongoing work (https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/graphs/contributors), so doesn't seem abandoned to me at all.
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Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
I dunno why their repo would choose to offload people to a separate site just to read https://cfoust.github.io/cy/why-not-tmux.html
IMHO <https://cfoust.github.io/cy/replay-mode.html#:~:text=make%20...> is trying to drive down the risk of an Evil Operator reading my files as if it's the 90s at school but my modern risk is that some npm dependency exfiltrates the .borg files, which are readable by me, to North Korea. I was hoping to find an encryption option but did not
> Configuration: cy uses a real programming language, Janet, for configuration.
Man, why everybody gotta reinvent scheme? https://janet-lang.org/#Code-Example
I do like any app with a command palette though https://cfoust.github.io/cy/quick-start/command-palette.html
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Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
Lately I've been using: https://janet-lang.org/ It's not a systems programming language, but it can be embedded in C.
https://jank-lang.org/ looks interesting to me --I have not tried it yet. I'm not sure if this language could qualify as a systems programming language. What do you think?
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Raku Programming Language
I first came across something like this in janet, which includes a PEG system in the standard library. It definitely changed how I think about text processing. Very much of the time what I find myself doing with regex is defining a grammar, but I didn't realize that. I wish more languages included the tools for it, it's a core operation of practical programming.
https://janet-lang.org
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Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make
...I of course would rather embed Janet [1], but I realize what is going to have an easier time gaining popularity %) Also, Lua has Löve [2] which could be immediately usable, among other things.
[1]: https://janet-lang.org/
[2]: https://www.love2d.org/
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The Fennel Programming Language
I don't think it has absolutely all that, but janet might be close?
https://janet-lang.org/
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