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tinylisp
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A mini Lisp in 1k lines of C with garbage collector, explained. Includes over 40 built-in Lisp primitives, floating point, strings, closures with lexical scope, macros, proper tail recursion, exceptions, execution tracing, file loading, a mark-sweep/compacting garbage collector and REPL. (by Robert-van-Engelen)
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Ribbit: A portable, compact and extensible R4RS Scheme implementation
> IIRC (might be wrong here) we had full support for JS, C, Python and Scheme from the start
I'm pretty sure we had support for JS, C, Python from the beginning as well. Then Scheme, posix shell, assembly came along for the ride.
> I'm unsure how support was kept throughout the versions but I know a much larger set of languages now support the runtime, at least for a subset of the features
One thing that really helped is CI testing! All the RVMs (the 16 targets) are now fully tested at each PR (https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit/actions)
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Pnut: A C to POSIX Shell Compiler you can Trust
I don't know about the specific motivations for this project, but if you're curious about why work like this has real-world relevance beyond scratching an itch, idle exploration, or meeting a research paper quota, you can look to similar work and literature:
GNU Mes: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/
Stage0: https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Stage0
Ribbit (same authors): https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit
See also this LWN article about bootstrappable and reproducible builds: https://lwn.net/Articles/841797/
- Rabbit Scheme Compiler
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Microcontroller-based Lisp machine (minimum language needed)?
Marc Feeley's lab develops Ribbit Scheme, which is a tiny Scheme implementation. It is an AOT compile which produces a string of bytecode that is interpreted by a VM, of which there are various implementations. The one in C could be compiled to your target microcontroller and thus give you a Scheme REPL.
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Use case for Ribbit Scheme
I have a question regarding Ribbit Scheme. (https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit).
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Advice for a Haskeller who wants to learn Scheme?
You might want to look at this 400 LOC implementation of Scheme in Haskell: https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit/blob/main/src/host/hs/rvm.hs
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Some benchmarking of various Ribbit hosts
Ribbit is a very interesting minimal Scheme driven by Marc Feeley. I spent a bit of time to benchmark some of the target runtimes and the results might be of interest to some.
- Ribbit Scheme bootstraps with Posix shell while supporting TCO, call/cc and GC
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Most readable Scheme implementation
A small and portable Scheme implementation that supports closures, tail calls, first-class continuations, a REPL and AOT and incremental compilers. All that for a run time footprint around 4 KB! https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit
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Analysis of the overhead of a minimal Zig program
> No dynamic memory allocation = no garbage collector, no non-deterministic allocation/deallocation, no write barriers, no out-of-memory possibilities, no fragmentation. For a surprisingly large class of programs, this is a great situation!
I know you know this already, but your statement is a little too broad. Those problems all still exist, but are greatly reduced. Data structures still need to be compacted, caches evicted, scratch space cleared, etc. It is just that one class of intractable issues gets removed when dynamic memory allocation goes away.
On a side note, have you seen this? https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit
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udem-dlteam/ribbit is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of ribbit is Scheme.
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