Hacker News with Generative AI: Lisp

A Garbage Collection Strategy (irreal.org)
One of the strengths—or weaknesses, depending on your point of view—of Lisp is garbage collection.

Programming, Lisp, Garbage Collection

3 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | 0 comments

Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector (github.com/jart)
sectorlisp is a 512-byte implementation of LISP that's able to bootstrap John McCarthy's meta-circular evaluator on bare metal.

Programming, Lisp, Computer Architecture, Low-Level Programming

104 points by gone35 18 days ago | 6 comments

Typed Lisp, a Primer (alhassy.com)
Let's explore Lisp's fine-grained type hierarchy!

Lisp, Programming Languages, Type Systems

140 points by todsacerdoti 19 days ago | 66 comments

Old Lisp (2018) (thisoldlisp.com)
Lisp was invented 60 years ago. Coral Common Lisp, the ancestor of today's Clozure Common Lisp, was released over 30 years ago. Over this time, processor architectures and operating systems have come and gone, but Clozure CL (under various names and forms) has survived and is still with us today. Clozure CL, Common Lisp, and Lisp itself are the product of many intelligent and clever people.

Programming Languages, History, Lisp, Clojure

10 points by Tomte 21 days ago | 1 comments

PicoCalc Lisp Machine (ulisp.com)
This article describes how to build a self-contained Lisp computer based on the Clockwork Pi PicoCalc handheld computer:

Lisp, Programming Languages, Hardware, Embedded Systems, DIY

10 points by chrisjj 23 days ago | 0 comments

On Lisp (1993) (paulgraham.com)
With thanks to Alan Apt of Prentice Hall for giving me back the copyright and Chip Coldwell for reproducing it from the original tex files, here finally is a digital version of On Lisp.

Programming, Lisp, History, Books

38 points by ibobev 25 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development, supports ASDF (nongnu.org)

Lisp, Programming Languages, Software Development, Open Source

96 points by andreamonaco 26 days ago | 60 comments

Language Showcase: Lux (2022) (compilerspotlight.substack.com)
Lux is a purely-functional and statically-typed lisp that pushes the boundaries of what's possible in terms of meta-programming.

Programming Languages, Lisp, Functional Programming, Static Typing

7 points by TheWiggles 33 days ago | 0 comments

Clolog (github.com/bobschrag)
Full-featured logic programming (AKA "Prolog") embedded in/callable from and supporting calls to Clojure. In the spirit of LogLisp, Lisp Machine Prolog, and Franz Inc.'s Allegro Prolog, with some extra goodies.

Programming Languages, Clojure, Prolog, Lisp

258 points by todsacerdoti 38 days ago | 44 comments

Slip – A Lisp System in the Browser (lisperator.net)
I've put some love into my browser-based Lisp system. This project is so old that I could actually say it's new and nobody would know. I just let it rot for something like 12 years, but since I revamped Ymacs recently, I wanted to fix the “IDE”, which was broken; and then I got carried away.

Lisp, Programming Languages, Web Development, IDEs

12 points by akkartik 41 days ago | 1 comments

Emacs Lisp Elements (protesilaos.com)
This book, written by Protesilaos Stavrou, also known as “Prot”, provides a big picture view of the Emacs Lisp programming language.

Programming, Emacs, Lisp

353 points by robenkleene 41 days ago | 56 comments

Why I Program in Lisp (blogspot.com)
Lisp is not the most popular language. It never was. Other general purpose languages are more popular and ultimately can do everything that Lisp can (if Church and Turing are correct). They have more libraries and a larger user community than Lisp does. They are more likely to be installed on a machine than Lisp is.

Programming Languages, Lisp, Opinion

286 points by ska80 42 days ago | 273 comments

Lisp Programs Don't Have Parentheses (blogspot.com)
Lisp programs don't have parentheses — they are made of nested linked lists. The parentheses only exist in the printed representation — the ASCII serialization — of a Lisp program. They tell the Lisp reader where the nested lists begin and end. Parenthesis are the contour lines in the topographic map of your Lisp program.

Programming, Lisp, Data Structures

9 points by adunk 43 days ago | 3 comments

Beyond Traditional Pattern Matching in Lisp (github.com/naver)
LispE, a modern Lisp dialect developed by Naver, introduces innovative constructs—defpat, defmacro, and defpred—that set it apart from traditional Lisp implementations like Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure.

Lisp, Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Software Development, Open Source

15 points by PaulHoule 48 days ago | 3 comments

Beyond Traditional Pattern Matching in Lisp (github.com/naver)
LispE, a modern Lisp dialect developed by Naver, introduces innovative constructs—defpat, defmacro, and defpred—that set it apart from traditional Lisp implementations like Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure.

Lisp, Programming Languages, Functional Programming

3 points by todsacerdoti 59 days ago | 1 comments

Autology: A Lisp with access to its own interpreter (github.com/Kimbsy)
A hot take on Lisp metaprogramming, Autology is a Lisp with access to its own interpreter.

Programming Languages, Lisp, Metaprogramming, Interpreters

136 points by simonpure 63 days ago | 52 comments

Hacker News now runs on top of SBCL (2024) (reddit.com)
The production website of Hacker News now runs on top of SBCL (I've got the confirmation from one of the moderators). It uses Clarc, an Arc implementation in CL.

Programming, Lisp, Hacker News

10 points by tosh 77 days ago | 1 comments

SICL: A fresh implementation of Common Lisp (github.com/robert-strandh)
This is the main source code repository for SICL.

Programming, Lisp, Open Source

17 points by tosh 77 days ago | 0 comments

The Landscape of Lisp (churchofturing.github.io)
Lisp is a family of programming languages with a long, rich and oftentimes confusing tradition.

Programming Languages, Lisp, History

55 points by todsacerdoti 77 days ago | 27 comments

Lisp in Your Language (danthedev.com)
I'm a fan of Lisp programming languages, but there's an incredible conceptual elegance that struggles to materialise as readable elegance for many unfamiliar programmers. The underlying concepts are incredibly simple, but the learning curve can represent a disproportionate challenge.

Programming Languages, Lisp, Learning

14 points by todsacerdoti 83 days ago | 2 comments

Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 1 (babbagefiles.xyz)
The first of a series of envisioned blog posts on lambda calculus, and Lisp. It’s unclear exactly where to start: there is a whole heap of interesting issues, both theoretical and in terms of concrete implementations, which tangle and interconnect.

Lambda Calculus, Programming Languages, Lisp

107 points by baruchel 89 days ago | 17 comments

Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL (github.com/cosmos72)
Schemesh is an interactive shell scriptable in Lisp.

Lisp, Shell, Programming Languages, Unix

177 points by cosmos0072 97 days ago | 50 comments

OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp (github.com/atgreen)
OpenLDK is a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler and runtime environment for Java, implemented entirely in Common Lisp.

Java, Lisp, Compilers, Runtime Environments, Open Source

212 points by varjag 107 days ago | 61 comments

Ask dang: Clarc public release? (ycombinator.com)
I have just learned that HN has been running on top of SBCL for several months, thanks to dang's new implementation of Arc called Clarc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969

Lisp, Programming, Hacker News, SBCL

12 points by mepian 112 days ago | 0 comments

Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM (pages.dev)
This is Maxima, a computer algebra system.

Programming, Web Development, Computer Algebra, Lisp, WASM

248 points by v9v 115 days ago | 53 comments

Why Racket? Why Lisp? (beautifulracket.com)

Programming Languages, Lisp, Racket

11 points by awll 120 days ago | 1 comments

I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey (ertu.dev)
Developing a multiplayer third-person shooter game as a solo developer is a journey filled with challenges and rewards.

Programming, Game Development, Lisp, Indie Games, Multiplayer Games

246 points by ertucetin 121 days ago | 54 comments

Parinfer: Simpler Lisp Editing (shaunlebron.github.io)
Lisp is often dismissed as an undesirable programming syntax due to excessive parentheses.

Programming Languages, Lisp, Editors, Syntax

168 points by harperlee 123 days ago | 32 comments

All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly (aartaka.me)
Once you get used to Lisp, you stop noticing the parentheses and rely on indentation instead.