Re:PicoLisp
by FractalLP on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:51PM
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Clojure compiles to JVM bytecode, so it should run much much faster than an interpreted picolisp. Clojure works on Windows too, while Picolisp needs Cygwin I think. Picolisp is really simple from a language point of view. It has a small group of core users who think very differently about software. There aren't many picolisp libraries, but you can hook into C & Java libraries when needed. It has an integrated prolog like DB. Clojure runs Walmart during black Friday online sales...I would not recommend that with picolisp.
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"Erzats" PicoLisp runs anywhere Java runs, that was it's original reason for existance - to be used in bootstrapping the compilation of PicoLisp, IIRC.
However, nowadays, I think Erzats PicoLisp, AKA the Java version of PicoLisp, gots too little love. It's an interesting way of accessing the JVM, just like Groovy or Clojure. Also, I don't have benchmarks, but PicoLisp is pretty damn fast owing to minimal datastructures and I would expect that to spill over into the Java implementation.