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Joxa – A concurrent, distributed Lisp

122 points by emidln 10y ago

bruxis 10y ago
Can this please have a more informative title? Joxa - Yet Another Lisp /s Joxa - Concurrent Distributed Lisp
- jonathonf 10y ago
  Joxa - A Lisp on the Erlang VM
  - tempodox 10y ago
    I would have found that title most informative.
- sctb 10y ago
  Sure thing, we've updated the title from just “Joxa”.
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throwaway7645 10y ago
Neat little project
desireco42 10y ago
+1 for better title. So I know about Joxa from another HN post related to BEAM based languages. I think that post better represents context for this Lispy-not-Erlang. I have to say, I really like it, I plan to play more with it, but I think BEAM is solid platform and something I am not jaded with like with JVM, which probably is also excellent platform, just dealing with it /w JRuby soured me for life. Anyhow, excellent effort, the other Lisp on BEAM LFE is great as well. Off to play with Joxa.
- desireco42 10y ago
  Also, not to be a jerk, but your build is failing :)!
- bmh100 10y ago
  Why are you jaded with the JVM? Would that lead you to choose Joxa over Clojure?
  - desireco42 10y ago
    I think I referred of joy of using JRuby, nominally it is much faster, but problems with it are just not worth it. It is very hard to compare Joxa vs. Clojure, but I would definitely appreciate BEAM way more, especially as I like Elixir and Erlang a lot.
carterehsmith 10y ago
I am interested in the "concurrent, distributed" part. But the web site does not provide any examples, or explanation. Do you guys plan to add more info on that?
- whichdan 10y ago
  Check out the joxa-otp* source[0]. If you aren't familiar with Erlang, they map up to its OTP concepts[1]. [0] https://github.com/joxa/joxa/tree/master/src https://github.com/joxa/joxa/tree/master/src [1] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp
yellowapple 10y ago
How does this compare with Lisp-Flavored Erlang (http://lfe.io/ http://lfe.io/)? Any particular advantages or disadvantages? EDIT: answering my own question: http://www.ericbmerritt.com/2012/02/21/differences-between-joxa-and-lfe.html http://www.ericbmerritt.com/2012/02/21/differences-between-j...
- junke 10y ago
  Not arguing about Lisp 1 vs Lisp 2, but the example seems broken: (defun hello-world () 'hello-world) (: hello-world) I freshly compiled LFE to test that and what is written above return an error. Besides, you can already call (hello-world) without problem.
- rvirding 10y ago
  Much of that blog/description is broken and it is not describing LFE as it is, or ever was in fact.
Yan_Coutinho 10y ago
Lisp is very weird. I was watching a web development video in Lisp ( https://www.liveedu.tv/foamy125/videos/K0QWA-a-simple-landing-page-in-common-lisp-3 https://www.liveedu.tv/foamy125/videos/K0QWA-a-simple-landin... ) and now I understand why people prefer PHP.

122 points by emidln 10y ago

bruxis 10y ago

Can this please have a more informative title? Joxa - Yet Another Lisp /s Joxa - Concurrent Distributed Lisp

jonathonf 10y ago
Joxa - A Lisp on the Erlang VM
- tempodox 10y ago
  I would have found that title most informative.
sctb 10y ago
Sure thing, we've updated the title from just “Joxa”.

deleted 10y ago

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throwaway7645 10y ago

Neat little project

desireco42 10y ago

+1 for better title. So I know about Joxa from another HN post related to BEAM based languages. I think that post better represents context for this Lispy-not-Erlang. I have to say, I really like it, I plan to play more with it, but I think BEAM is solid platform and something I am not jaded with like with JVM, which probably is also excellent platform, just dealing with it /w JRuby soured me for life. Anyhow, excellent effort, the other Lisp on BEAM LFE is great as well. Off to play with Joxa.

desireco42 10y ago
Also, not to be a jerk, but your build is failing :)!
bmh100 10y ago
Why are you jaded with the JVM? Would that lead you to choose Joxa over Clojure?
- desireco42 10y ago
  I think I referred of joy of using JRuby, nominally it is much faster, but problems with it are just not worth it. It is very hard to compare Joxa vs. Clojure, but I would definitely appreciate BEAM way more, especially as I like Elixir and Erlang a lot.

carterehsmith 10y ago

I am interested in the "concurrent, distributed" part. But the web site does not provide any examples, or explanation. Do you guys plan to add more info on that?

whichdan 10y ago
Check out the joxa-otp* source[0]. If you aren't familiar with Erlang, they map up to its OTP concepts[1]. [0] https://github.com/joxa/joxa/tree/master/src https://github.com/joxa/joxa/tree/master/src [1] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp

yellowapple 10y ago

How does this compare with Lisp-Flavored Erlang (http://lfe.io/ http://lfe.io/)? Any particular advantages or disadvantages? EDIT: answering my own question: http://www.ericbmerritt.com/2012/02/21/differences-between-joxa-and-lfe.html http://www.ericbmerritt.com/2012/02/21/differences-between-j...

junke 10y ago
Not arguing about Lisp 1 vs Lisp 2, but the example seems broken: (defun hello-world () 'hello-world) (: hello-world) I freshly compiled LFE to test that and what is written above return an error. Besides, you can already call (hello-world) without problem.
rvirding 10y ago
Much of that blog/description is broken and it is not describing LFE as it is, or ever was in fact.

Yan_Coutinho 10y ago

Lisp is very weird. I was watching a web development video in Lisp ( https://www.liveedu.tv/foamy125/videos/K0QWA-a-simple-landing-page-in-common-lisp-3 https://www.liveedu.tv/foamy125/videos/K0QWA-a-simple-landin... ) and now I understand why people prefer PHP.