JOjohnisgood·Sep 9, 2024
It has not been fixed yet.
> I've turned the web repl back to 1.5.0 for now while we investigate the issue.[1]
[1] https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/issues/485#issuecomment-2...
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22 sourcesWith "[sprintf] unexpected placeholder".
This is presumably https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari/issues/147. You can workaround it by substituting "%.f" for "%.0f" in https://fennel-lang.org/fennel/fennel.lua.
However Chrome won't let me override the contents of this URL for some reason. And the first Firefox response override extension I tried ended up confusing the page. So you can alternatively override the contents https://fennel-lang.org/fengari-web.js as follows:
`"string" == typeof o.response ? a.f = yt(o.response.replace("%.f","%.0f")) : a.f = new Uint8Array(o.response.replace("%.f","%.0f"));`
(Just before `var l = Ee(a);`)
Opened a bug for it: https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/issues/485
In The Fennel Programming LanguageI've also seen neovim plugins written in fennel [0], so if you want something lispy, that's possible now.
[0]: a Lisp that compiles to Lua, https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
In The Future of the Vim ProjectFor embedded application (as in micro-controllers) there is http://www.ulisp.com/
SBCL still needs garbage collection. There are also https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp and https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
I haven't used these. Would be great if low-level and embedded engineers could chime in.
In Emacs-like editors written in Common LispThe cookbook[0] has some good examples, I went with the state machine parser
as a base for highlighting in mpv's console (mpv scripting has been the main focus of my fennel use, mostly rewriting existing code)
[0] https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/wiki/Cookbook
In Fennel: A Practical LispFennel is a Lisp that compiles to Lua
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I found this today after following back to Fennel (for probably the 10th time hehe) from the recent Fullmoon post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30385759) by thinking "what if I use Fennel instead of Lua-proper there?".
I then checked out the Fennel Wiki (https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/wiki) where you'll spy a link to Fengari. Maybe that trail of breadcrumbs helps you find more things you might be interested in.
In Fengari – Lua for the BrowserFWIW, Janet's creator previous project was Fennel[0], a lisp that compiles to Lua.
[0] https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
In Janet Programming LanguageIf you like Lua and like Lisp-y languages you might like: https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel which compiles to Lua.
In PocketlangFennel is a Clojure / Lisp style language that compiles to Lua (famous for being fast due to the good JIT).
Some links to Fennel codebases: https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/wiki/Codebases
In Fennel 0.8.0 ReleasedMy current favourite of these is this Lua version: https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
In Lispsyntax.jl: A Clojure-like Lisp syntax for juliaInteresting project. By chance have you heard of fennel[0]? It is a compile to Lua language with s-expression syntax. Also I believe you can export LuaJIT's bytecode with string.dump and it would be portable across platforms. Not trying to diminish your work, however. This could be useful for having a "real" Lisp embedded in-game. I don't think I've seen a scripting language with immutability either.
Would it be possible to write a REPL using ArkScript or use the compiler from within the language?
Also, I'm really curious how you got so many people to work on the language. How did you accomplish this?
[0] https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
In Show HN: ArkScript, a small and fast language for scripting video games> compile clojure to lua
That's fennel: https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
In Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisphttps://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
> Fennel is a lisp that compiles to Lua. It aims to be easy to use, expressive, and has almost zero overhead compared to handwritten Lua.
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