Hacker News with Generative AI: Lisp

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 6 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 11 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 14 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 14 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 15 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 16 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 20 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 32 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 36 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 50 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 50 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 50 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 56 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 62 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 70 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 80 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 85 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 88 days ago | 53 comments

Why Racket? Why Lisp? (beautifulracket.com)

Programming Languages, Lisp, Racket

11 points by awll 93 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 94 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 96 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.

Programming Languages, Lisp, Aesthetics

117 points by birdculture 96 days ago | 98 comments

Fold-... and Monoids (blogspot.com)

Functional Programming, Lisp, Programming Languages

103 points by ykm 110 days ago | 46 comments

Lisp Is Not an Acceptable Lisp (blogspot.com)

Lisp, Programming Languages, Humor

8 points by behnamoh 112 days ago | 1 comments

On: Lisp, on Lisp, and MySelf (pyrope.net)
Common Lisp, On Lisp, and me? What more could you ask for in a blog post

Lisp, Programming Languages, Books, Personal Essays

3 points by usually 114 days ago | 0 comments

SBCL "user-guided optimization" notice (github.com/sbcl)
Take a big shortcut when compiling (lambda () nil)

Software, Programming, Optimization, Lisp

28 points by BoingBoomTschak 119 days ago | 11 comments

Using Guile for Emacs (lwn.net)
Emacs is, famously, an editor—perhaps far more—that is extensible using its own variant of the Lisp programming language, Emacs Lisp (or Elisp). This year's edition of EmacsConf, which is an annual "gathering" that has been held online for the past five years, had two separate talks on using a different variant of Lisp, Guile, for Emacs.

Emacs, Programming, Lisp, Software, Open Source

6 points by signa11 120 days ago | 0 comments

Relational Lisp – AP5 (ap5.com)
AP5 is an extension to commonlisp which allows users to "program" at a more "specificational" level.

Programming Languages, Lisp, Functional Programming

70 points by medo-bear 129 days ago | 3 comments

Guile-Emacs Relaunched (emacsconf.org)
The Guile-Emacs project seeks to develop new foundations for Emacs to serve as the basis for the next forty years of development. It integrates Emacs and Guile by providing a new Elisp implementation based on Guile's Lisp-oriented compiler tower and runtime environment.

Programming, Emacs, Software Development, Open Source, Lisp

88 points by Kholin 144 days ago | 40 comments

Compiling Lisp to Bytecode and Running It (healeycodes.com)
Before this, the only virtual machine (VM) I had written was for Advent of Code. Day 8 of 2020 asks you to write a program to evaluate a list of instructions so that you can help fix a kid's game console.

Programming, Lisp, Virtual Machines

9 points by ingve 145 days ago | 1 comments