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Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig

by montyanderson on 7/13/24, 10:11 PM with 34 comments

• by 1hackaday on 7/14/24, 3:23 PM

  Very interesting. Would be useful to know how this compares to other Lisps and what could be some use cases.

• by hayley-patton on 7/15/24, 2:01 AM

  What's the experiment?

• by tmtvl on 7/14/24, 2:29 PM

  Putting closing parentheses on their own lines is extremely cursed.

  I used to like Lisp-1s when I used Scheme, but having used Common Lisp for a while I've come to appreciate Lisp-2s, if only for silly things like...

    (defun foo (list)
      (declare (type List list))
      (assert (> (length list) 1))
      (list (second list)
            (first list)))
  

  Everything else aside it seems like a nice finger exercise for learning Zig.

• by revskill on 7/14/24, 4:59 PM

  Need a dialect without using bracket.

• by gleenn on 7/14/24, 4:07 PM

  I see they use they use the actual lambda character "λ" to create functions which is both cool and also probably makes grepping for functions a PITA. It does look pretty but I would have to search the web or write down the random keystroke to generate that symbol.

  An example usage:

  (filter (quicksort '(5 40 1 -3 2) <) (λ (x) (>= x 0)))