THthricegreat·Nov 2, 2022Submission
Wisp is a Lisp system for WebAssembly
23 points · Open discussionmbrock
wisp
JavaScript2022–2025
mbrock / wisp
wisp
Lisp in WebAssembly
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThis is would be a great project to provide a mature Lisp that developers could use to target WebAssembly. Guile Scheme is an amazing Lisp to utilize for this purpose. Here are some other Lisp-to-Wasm type projects from my brief search.
-The Wisp project to compile Lisp-to-Wasm:
https://github.com/mbrock/wisp
-Chaitin's Lisp- This is a WebAssembly port of Gregory Chaitin's minimal Lisp interpreter:
http://weitz.de/chaitin/
-HN post: Common Lisp running natively over WebAssembly:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31590819
Great idea!
In Guile Steel: a proposal for a systems Lisp