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Re:Ask HN: New Programming Language? by cat_adorer on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @08:55AM (#29906299)
I'd like a systems programming lisp with first-class functions, lexical scoping, and tail recursion optimization: lisps are beautiful and there don't seem to be any well suited for handling binary data.
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Re:Ask HN: New Programming Language? by PeterWhittaker on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:38AM (#29907846)
Javascript under Safari?

Javascript supports first class functions, lexical scoping, and tail recursion.

AFAICT from stackoverflow, the Safari JS engine optimizes tail recursion, while Firefox is apparently working on it.

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Re:Ask HN: New Programming Language? by nemoniac on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:03AM (#29908312)
I think scsh checks all your boxes.

https://scsh.net/

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