SJsjs·Apr 12, 2011
Sibilant is Lisp lipstick for JavaScript.
https://github.com/jbr/sibilant
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sibilant
Just another compile-to-js LISP-like language
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What it is
Just another compile-to-js LISP-like language
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Observed mentions: 2010-07-06 18:41:27 UTC to 2011-04-12 05:02:26 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 2010 | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Aug 2010 | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2010 | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2010 | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2010 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2010 | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2011 | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2011 | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2011 | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesAs JavaScript becomes increasingly ubiquitious thanks to budding frameworks like node.js, the lisp->javascript compilers start to look more interesting. Parenscript [1], Scriptjure [2] and Scheme2Js [3] are the respective projects for Common Lisp, Clojure and Scheme, and they're all relatively mature.
More recently, Jacob Rothstein started Sibilant [4], which I've been collaborating on [5]. The main difference in approach is that we're trying to design a new lisp dialect optimized for the task of writing JavaScript, rather than compiling from an existing lisp dialect that wasn't designed with this purpose in mind. Since it's such a young project, I wouldn't recommend it for production environments now, but you should keep an eye on it if you're interested in this sort of thing.
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[1] http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
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There's also already a Lisp-on-Node project called Sibilant. Jake's got a neat live-compile-in-the-browser demo up here:
http://sibilantjs.info
And the source is available here (and as an NPM package):
http://github.com/jbr/sibilant
In Introducing lisp.js: a Lisp for node.jsThat's some excellent work there my friend. I specially liked your Lisp/jQuery integration : http://github.com/jbr/sibilant/blob/master/public/javascript...
In Poll: Semicolons in JavaScriptTo plug my own project, I've also been developing a lisp dialect that compiles to JavaScript. I plan to announce on HN when the docs are complete. It's fully self-hosting, runs in the browser, and comes with a repl/compiler that runs on node.
http://github.com/jbr/sibilant
http://sibilantjs.info/
In Poll: Semicolons in JavaScript