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Embedded Lisp Interpreter

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Embedded Lisp Interpreter

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There it is again, the urge to port my Lisp back to C. https://github.com/codr7/eli What I love most about C is the fact that it doesn't talk down to me no matter what crazy…

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Feb 17	2025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC	2025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2
Feb 24	2025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC	2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Mar 3	2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC	2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Mar 10	2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC	2025-03-17 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
Mar 17	2025-03-17 00:00:00 UTC	2025-03-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 24	2025-03-24 00:00:00 UTC	2025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 31	2025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC	2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 7	2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC	2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Apr 14	2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC	2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 21	2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC	2025-04-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 28	2025-04-28 00:00:00 UTC	2025-05-05 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

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codr7·May 4, 2025

The main issue I have with CLs type checking is the clunky syntax and the fact that it looks different in different contexts. I made an attempt to fix that for eli: https://github.com/codr7/eli#type-checking

In Typed Lisp, a Primer

codr7·Apr 13, 2025

I've been working on something along those lines in eli: https://github.com/codr7/eli?tab=readme-ov-file#type-checkin...

In Why Fennel?

codr7·Mar 15, 2025Submission

Show HN: eli – Embedded Lisp Interpreter

45 points · Open discussion

codr7·Mar 11, 2025

Nice, there are lots of interesting ideas/possibilities in Lisp that I feel deserve being further explored. I've been working on a custom dialect with a focus on practical use as an embedded scripting language for quite a while now: https://github.com/codr7/eli

In Bel in Clojure (2022)

codr7·Mar 4, 2025Recommendation phrase

There it is again, the urge to port my Lisp back to C. https://github.com/codr7/eli What I love most about C is the fact that it doesn't talk down to me no matter what crazy ideas I come up with. It's therapeutic for me, reminds me why I started writing code in the first place. I realize that's also what many hate about it, the fact that it gives other people freedoms they would never trust themselves with.

In Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?

codr7·Feb 24, 2025

Embedded Lisp for app scripting: https://github.com/codr7/eli Typed Relational Database access: https://github.com/codr7/tyred

In Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

codr7·Feb 23, 2025

Tried to love Clojure, but found it to opinionated as a daily driver for me. Sometimes I just need to get some code running to see a result, which is my main use case for Lisp. I used to default to Common Lisp, but it needs a lot of scaffolding to become ergonomic, and even then it has too many quirks to be really enjoyable for me. So I started designing my own: https://github.com/codr7/eli

In Why Clojure?

tosh·Feb 23, 2025Submission

eli: Embedded Lisp Interpreter

2 points · Open discussion

codr7·Feb 23, 2025

I certainly appreciate the theoretical beauty of lambda calculus, but I do wonder what the point is from a modern implementation perspective. Most hobby Lisps I run into seem to be more of a lambda calculus rite of passage than aiming for practical use. I've implemented several Lisp interpreters myself in different languages, very much focused on practical use, and they don't look anything like this. https://github.com/codr7/eli

In Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 1