If curious see also

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019594

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18897817

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466124

Taos, which Chris worked on, has also been discussed here:

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15527936

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727565

It is interesting as many times an angle on this subject comes up in the last 5-10 years, no one has been able to dig up a copy of the original versions and boot them and take screenshots.

I assume Vygr has at least a working copy of a Taos derivative or Taos itself (maybe not the working source code) but doesn't share screenshots of it working because it could put ChrysalLisp in a greyer area potentially to Cloanto.

From what I've been able to find on the internet, it seems like Taos in its Amiga Anywhere incarnation can be resuscitated/cobbled together from contemporaneous Gnu tools for amiga (I found some that were downloadable), some specific things that were bespoke to the grid computing concept (it was inconclusive to me what these were), and the demos that Chrysalisp has replicated (I wasn't able to find these that could be distinguished from regular opengl demos for amiga).

From docs/LISP.md, on how the Lisp contained within lacks a GC and instead uses reference counting without a cycle collector.

> So you do have to be careful not to create cycles, so think about how your code works.

Looks like a ton of fun

Url changed from https://awesomeopensource.com/project/vygr/ChrysaLisp?catego..., which appears to be a copy of the Github page.

Thanks, this saved me some time. I was just debugging why the project I work on (LibHunt) hadn't logged the mention of https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp on this post... the reason being - you've updated the URL after it was submitted.