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mbrock / wisp

wisp

Lisp in WebAssembly

3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
308GitHub stars
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Lisp in WebAssembly

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-07-11 11:45:55 UTC to 2025-10-07 08:31:16 UTC.

0122022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I also based my Zig Lisp interpreter on delimited continuations and had a great time implementing async, resumable exceptions, dynamically scoped variables, and so on, on top of that. The single-stepping continuation-shuffling evaluation paradigm also made it really easy to expose evaluations as objects and stepping as a function. A simple form like (set! e (run (+ 1 1)) stores an evaluation—whose continuation and lexical environment can both be inspected and serialized—and (step! e) does a single evaluation step. This lets you implement not just yield-based cooperative concurrency in "user space" but something like green threads with a preemptive scheduler. Here you can see how the delimited continuation control allows binding to JavaScript's Promise API in a way that lets you treat promises as blocking computations: https://gi
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thub.com/mbrock/wisp/blob/master/web/js.wisp You might be interested in seeing e.g. the implementation of SEND-WITH-DEFAULT! which is one of the control control primitives: https://github.com/mbrock/wisp/blob/b8e29dba0ea61ebaf2db5e3e... The evaluator itself is in core/step.zig if you want to check it out.
In Delimited continuations in lone Lisp

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