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A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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History of Lisp - John McCarthy's history of 12 February 1979.
History of LISP at the Computer Histroy Museum

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Fennel brings Clojure style syntax to Lua (fennel-lang.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There’s also some kind of experiment going on where a JVM runtime is preloaded with Clojure, and that JVM & runtime is somehow frozen, packaged and deployed as an executable, thus eliminating the very high Clojure startup cost. I don’t remember where I saw this, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, there's been some work for speeding up clj running on the regular JVM, but I find it never really gets much interest. I think most people use clj for stuff like web services that are long running, and locally develop via the REPL so restarts aren't common.

One project worth watching is Jank, it aims to be mostly compatible but running on LLVM, still not quite production ready, but seems to have some community funding and being developed pretty actively https://jank-lang.org/