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Re:Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust by skydhash on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:16AM (#50412606)
SBCL is written in C and have FFI baked in

http://www.lichteblau.com/sbcl/doc/manual/sbcl/Foreign-Funct...

Maybe it’s too much work to write a full lisp vm in another language when it’s easier to write a loader.

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Re:Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust by pjmlp on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:01AM (#50413887)
Nowadays, historically Lisps have had the primitive forms written in Assembly and everything else bootstrap.
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Re:Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust by stassats on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:36AM (#50414159)
> SBCL is written in C

That's not quite right.

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