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If this were true, wouldn't something like racket or common lisp be more popular than it currently is?

• lenkite 6y ago
  Can you point me to a guide that shows how to use racket or common lisp on mobile operating systems like android/ios or run them as WASM web-apps ?
  • auganov 6y ago
    I don't know of a specific example, but Lisps have a pretty long tradition of coming with architecture specific assemblers. I'm sure there are many CL implementations that can target ARM. The problem is any sizable Lisp needs quite a lot of stuff available at runtime. A trivial program would still likely[0] be a sizable blob with a memory penalty. If anything, I'd say Clojure (cljs especially) actually bypasses this problem by leveraging a platform's privileged language. Purely theoretically, there's no reason why you couldn't have a mobile device built around CL. But if you want to target what's already out there, a parasitic design works much better. Also, on the popularity front I guess it's a bit of a glass half full situation. Compared to other Lisps, Clojure is no doubt dominating. Among what I'd call "alternative languages" it's a tough call. [0] Have to mention there's a lot of diversity in CL implementations so this is certainly not universally true. But I would assume this is true for something that has all the conveniences you'd want.
  • soegaard 6y ago
    Running Racket BC on iOS https://defn.io/2020/01/05/racket-on-ios/ https://defn.io/2020/01/05/racket-on-ios/
    • lenkite 6y ago
      Wow, this is rather interesting. Just a bit of doable C-interop needed. Thanks for the link.