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I've tried really hard with eslisp to defy Greenspun's Tenth, and to do justice to the Lisp tradition. The macros in eslisp are actual macros with scope and pr

by an_ko 6y ago

I've tried really hard with eslisp to defy Greenspun's Tenth, and to do justice to the Lisp tradition. The macros in eslisp are actual macros with scope and proper hygiene. They can perform arbitrary computation, and can arbitrarily modify the AST. You can even access the macro table during compilation to completely gut the language from the inside if you want. So I guess the goal is to be a purpose-designed, fairly well specified, only somewhat buggy, slower-but-not-debilitatingly-so implementation of 80% of Common Lisp. :)

flavio81 6y ago
>80% of Common Lisp. So, does it include bit-arrays, custom hash tables, multimethods, method combinations, the condition-restarts signalling system, ability to place items on the stack instead of on the garbage collector, type declarations that enable speed optimizations, saving the running state to disk, and upgrading the instances of a class to a new class? I don't want to be smug, but 80% is a bold claim. Again, I think Eslisp is useful and maybe i'll try to introduce it to my team (they're all JS/TS developers) to see if they get the GATEWAY DRUG to Lisp.