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Lumen – Lisp in Lua and JavaScript: https://github.com/sctb/lumen

Scott Bell wrote a lot of that. I was fascinated by the self-hosting technique. The whole repo is so small that you can almost dismiss it as some kind of academic toy, if you don't realize it's a full-featured production-grade lisp.

(Not to take anything away from Fennel! The more lisp, the better.)



I knew about Fennel, but did not know about Lumen. Thanks for the pointer!

edit: Looking at the git history is very educational for how to bootstrap a self hosting system like this. Fascinating.


Would someone be so kind as to compare Lumen to Fennel?




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