> Most of the effort of spinning up a new language is in the backend (optimization and error checking), where lisp doesn't offer a compelling advantage SBCL li

> Most of the effort of spinning up a new language is in the backend (optimization and error checking), where lisp doesn't offer a compelling advantage SBCL literally allows writing compiler intrinsics (and I'm talking about native machine code, not bytecode) at runtime out of the box: https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/ https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembl...