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Carp
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carp-lang / Carp
Carp
A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
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What it is
A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
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I love Clojure, but I do miss static types. I'm hoping Carp[0] (mentioned in the article) comes into its own. It seems like it could become my ideal language. The other problem…
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 17 | 3 | 14 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 3 | 9 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesCUcurtis·Dec 24, 2017
A couple of useful links:
https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
> Carp is a small programming language designed to work well for interactive and performance sensitive use cases like games, sound synthesis and visualizations.
The key features of Carp are the following:
* Automatic and deterministic memory management (no garbage collector or VM)
* Inferred static types for great speed and reliability
* Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood
* No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying are explicit
* Straightforward integration with existing C code
http://blog.veitheller.de/Carp.html, HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778530
In A walkthrough of the internals of the Carp compilerFrom their github (https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp)
The key features of Carp are the following:
- Automatic and deterministic memory management (no garbage collector or VM)
- Inferred static types for great speed and reliability
- Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache friendly data structures under the hood
- No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying is explicit
- Straight-forward integration with existing C code
In Carp, a compiled Lisp with type inference and a borrow checkerCarp: A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications
3 points · Open discussionThere are lisps being worked on to resolve points 1, 2, and 4.
https://github.com/tomhrr/dale
https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
In The Lisp Curse (2011)Carp – A type inferred Lisp with Rust style memory management
3 points · Open discussion