ATAtticHacker·Dec 21, 2020Submission
Liz: Lisp-flavored language based on the Zig
2 points · Open discussiondundalek
liz
Clojure2020–2020
dundalek / liz
liz
Lisp-flavored general-purpose programming language (based on Zig)
3Distinct people
3Mentions
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293GitHub stars
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What it is
Lisp-flavored general-purpose programming language (based on Zig)
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What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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HN mentions by 6-hour interval3 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2020-12-14 14:36:19 UTC to 2020-12-21 12:31:16 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 14, 12:00 | 2020-12-14 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-14 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 14, 18:00 | 2020-12-14 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 15, 00:00 | 2020-12-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-15 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 15, 06:00 | 2020-12-15 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-15 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 15, 12:00 | 2020-12-15 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-15 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 15, 18:00 | 2020-12-15 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 16, 00:00 | 2020-12-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-16 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 16, 06:00 | 2020-12-16 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-16 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 16, 12:00 | 2020-12-16 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-16 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 16, 18:00 | 2020-12-16 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 17, 00:00 | 2020-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-17 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 17, 06:00 | 2020-12-17 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-17 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 17, 12:00 | 2020-12-17 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-17 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 17, 18:00 | 2020-12-17 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 18, 00:00 | 2020-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-18 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 18, 06:00 | 2020-12-18 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-18 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 18, 12:00 | 2020-12-18 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-18 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 18, 18:00 | 2020-12-18 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 19, 00:00 | 2020-12-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-19 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 19, 06:00 | 2020-12-19 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-19 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 19, 12:00 | 2020-12-19 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-19 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 19, 18:00 | 2020-12-19 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 20, 00:00 | 2020-12-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-20 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 20, 06:00 | 2020-12-20 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-20 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 20, 12:00 | 2020-12-20 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-20 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 20, 18:00 | 2020-12-20 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 21, 00:00 | 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-21 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 21, 06:00 | 2020-12-21 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-21 12:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 21, 12:00 | 2020-12-21 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-21 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesVery cool project, great to see more s-expression based languages. I maintain a list of lisp-flavored languages [0], so I will add Cakelisp there.
How did you implement the macro expansion? Are you translating the macros to C/C++, then compile it with C/C++ compiler and execute the temporary binary or do you have an interpreter for that?
I work on a somewhat similar project called Liz, which is basically a lisp-flavored dialect of Zig [1]. I did not implement user-defined macros yet, planning to learn more about comptime and its limitations first. But the compiler itself uses macro-expansion to implement many features.
[0] https://github.com/dundalek/awesome-lisp-languages
[1] https://github.com/dundalek/liz
In Cakelisp: A Programming Language for GamesIf you're adventurous and like Clojure, check out liz, a Lisp-flavored zig https://github.com/dundalek/liz
In Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed