lone

I call it the lone programming language. https://github.com/lone-lang/lone/ It's a lisp interpreter with zero dependencies targeting Linux exclusively. I've written about a few of its development milestones: https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/self-contained-lone-... https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/delimited-continuati... I'm particularly proud of my ELF hack to allow the interpreter to introspect into a lisp code section at runtime without any /proc/self/exe shenanigans. Wish other languages would adopt it. Top comment and its replies talk about linking the lisp code into a self-contained, easily distributable application: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989721 I think I addressed that problem adequately. I can create applications by copying the interpreter and patching in some special ELF segments containing lisp modu

> Has anyone else built something similar? I made my own lisp. It used to have a recursive interpreter but I recently finished converting it into a register/stack machine that's essentially a modified version of the Explicit Control Evaluator from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. https://github.com/lone-lang/lone/blob/master/source/lone/li... Now I'm thinking about converting it into a CESK machine which I believe is a proper stack machine. Modifying the SICP machine has proven difficult due to the loose stack discipline. I'm told register machines are faster but keeping track of all those ad hoc pushes and pops is turning into a nightmare. > What features would you add to make it more useful? The neat part about all these machines is how the stack itself turns into some sort of code. You push some state indicating what

> Go binaries on Linux don't need libc (except for NSS, which is glibc-only idiocy). They don't need NSS either, they just chose to depend on it because getting rid of if was too painful. Everyone's addicted to glibc and nobody enjoys going through the withdrawal symptoms. > Running a static libc-less binary as init is fun and easy! It's incredibly fun. I wrote a freestanding Linux Lisp interpreter and my long term goal is to boot Linux into it and bring up the entire system from within the REPL. https://github.com/lone-lang/lone I haven't tested it but I bet Linux can already boot into it just fine. I still need to do more work to make it able to bring up the system though. I've implemented endianness independent memory access functions, now I need a binary structure encoder and decoder. That will enable programs to do kernel I/O properl