Carp

Carp - https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp - "A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications." where it's "Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood".

Looking for a personal project so open-source would be great, but maturity/production readiness is not really a factor. The only significant thing i can find so far is https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp. Anything notable that i might have missed ?

Carp is a statically-typed Lisp: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

Not CL, but there is ulisp (http://www.ulisp.com/) for microcontrollers, supposed to be really tiny, and there is Carp (https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp) which is without a GC so seems suitable for real-time stuff.

Everybody is trying to make a more user-friendly Rust. The problem is that it is not clear yet whether that's possible, and if it is, how it may look. I know Vale and have tried it, though it's extremely early to judge anything so far. It does have a much stronger theoretical background than V, but even the theory is not completely clear at this point. There is also Carp by the way: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

The goal is certainly to have a language suitable for "real-time applications" (read games/audio), that's not my area of expertise however so your definition of real-time might not be different than mine. As it compiles to C, any microcontroller with a compiler that supports something that looks like C can work. I've run Carp code on a GBA (as mentionned somewhere else in the comments), esp32, esp8266, as well as Arduboy & Pygamer via Arduino. There is some more information about running Carp on embedded platforms in the docs[0]. One last thing I wanted to mention is that Carp is still very much in flux so it might not be the best choice for longterm projects, but if you're interested in playing with the language there is usually always someone to answer questions on the Gitter[1]. [0] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/Em

I'm excited about Carp's comprehensive and well documented[1] interoperability with C, which unlocks lots of potential for interfacing with existing libraries. Tim Dévé has even created a game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance by using Carp's C interoperability; you can play an emulated version online[2]. [1]: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/CInterop.... [2]: https://radicorn.do.timdeve.com/

I tried it out months ago. It has a really limiting REPL if you’re coming from other lisps like Common Lisp or even Clojure. If your bag is interactive development, then that might be a bummer. https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/Manual.md...

More on memory management https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/Memory.md And yes is Open Source (Apache Licence)

Found this page to be a nice intro to the syntax and semantics: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/LanguageG... This part hits a real sweet spot for me: > Carp borrows its looks from Clojure but the runtime semantics are much closer to those of ML or Rust. One of my current side-projects is a little Civ-style game I'm working on in Racket, which I decided to start coding in on a whim. Will see how it goes moving pieces of it across to Carp.