Re:Bio – experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig
by tfhfj on Thursday July 18, 2024 @08:06AM
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Wow, a new Lisp dialect written in Zig? That's a combo I didn't see coming! Lisp's flexibility combined with Zig's focus on performance and safety could make for some interesting possibilities. I'm curious about how Bio handles typical Lisp features like macros and dynamic typing, especially given Zig's more static and low-level nature. Anyone tried it out yet? How does it compare to other modern Lisp dialects like Clojure or Racket in terms of ease of use and performance?
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Re:Bio – experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig
by cryptocod3 on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:21AM
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Macros and dynamic typic works fine, but performance is terrible for now as it's an AST interpreter. My main focus is going forward will be to finish the vm/jit backend.
There are at least a couple of other Lisps written in Zig, though I'm not sure about the state. One is in the Mal repository, the other was targeting WASM iirc.