/lisp-thing

Another unfinished toy lisp interpreter.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Wasting some time writing a dialect of Lisp hosted on Node.js (for now, port to other Javascript environments if ever useful). Right now, it's not even close to useful.

Rationale

  • Javascript is the universal high level VM.

  • Javascript as a language feels wrong...

  • ...but it has great primitives to build on, and many people are building runtimes.

  • I've been missing Lisp.

Goals

  • Compile to Javascript, both ahead-of-time and dynamically.

  • Don't expose implicit type conversions to Lisp code.

  • Lisp-1, mostly Scheme-like API. (Ignore call/cc! car/cdr ignore (), () tests as false.)

  • Module system that works with the usual require model.

  • Straightforward FFI in and out of JS.

Anti-Goals

  • NOT going to try to create idiomatic (or even readable) JS.