Joxa – A Modern Lisp for the Erlang VM

Re:Joxa – A Modern Lisp for the Erlang VM by yellowapple on Friday June 05, 2015 @04:44PM (#9668024)

The obvious difference is that LFE is maintained by Robert Virding (one of the original creators of Erlang itself). I'd imagine this would translate to LFE being more "Erlangy", but this assumption comes from a lack of experience with either.

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Re:Joxa – A Modern Lisp for the Erlang VM by oubiwann on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:53PM (#9669120)

So a couple of comments here :-) Robert is actually an old-school Lisper (and a hard-core one, too). LFE has been inspired not only by CL but also Maclisp. The point being that, yeah, he's an Erlang guy, but he was first a Lisp guy (and has always remained so).

Second comment: LFE is a Lisp, but it's a Lisp whose first and foremost goal was to allow one to build fully Erlang (and OTP)-compatible systems in Lisp. Clojure's Lisp has a Java flavour; LFE's Lisp has an Erlang flavour. They are both very real and compelling Lisps :-)

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Re:Joxa – A Modern Lisp for the Erlang VM by yellowapple on Monday June 08, 2015 @12:08PM (#9679970)

Thanks for the clarifications.

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