femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

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• borodi1 hour ago
  Fun fact, Julia's parser and part of its compiler are implemented in femtolisp, and you can access it using a not so secret option in the Julia CLI.
  • markkitti40 minutes ago
    <p><pre><code> $ julia --lisp ; _ ; |_ _ _ |_ _ | . _ _ ; | (-||||_(_)|__|_)|_) ;-------------------|----- ------------------------------ ----------------------- &gt; (+ 1 2) 3</code></pre>
  • eigenspace57 minutes ago
    We are slowly moving on replacing this stuff with implementations written in pure julia.<p>Currently the femtolisp parser is only used during bootstrapping the core systems so that we can parse the pure-julia parser and then we switch over to the julia parser. The same process is now happening with the femtolisp implementation of the lowering pass.
    • tokai47 minutes ago
      So Julia will no longer be a LISP? :&#x27;(
      • eigenspace9 minutes ago
        Having some components written in lisp was never the lispy part of julia. The thing that makes julia lispy is its semantics and features.