zuo

Pollen is great. I wish it was more widely used. One of the only reasons I don't use it for most things is that adding the whole of Racket as a dependency comes across as a little much. One of my "one day..." projects is to try and reimplement a subset of Pollen using https://github.com/racket/zuo which I think would make it much easier to integrate as a much smaller dependency. But maybe the whole "ease of use" budget is blown by using a Lisp in the first place. :) In any case, if you've ever had to write a technical manual before (or some kind of heavy technical reference), I think you should give Pollen a try. It has much more general answers to a lot of problems you encounter when writing complex web documents. It is an interesting, useful, and pragmatic point in the design space, IMO.

Very cool! In a similar vein there’s Zuo: https://github.com/racket/zuo

https://github.com/racket/zuo/blob/main/local/tree.zuo is a pretty good example. It’s nothing like Bash; it’s a Lisp dialect. The obvious comparison is Lua, which is generally the standard embedded language people use when a scripting language needs to be tiny. I compared its size; Zuo is 55% the size of Lua, so apples to apples, Zuo is only a little over half the size of Lua. On the other hand, Lua uses a Pascal like syntax which is a good deal more Bash like than Zuo.

Source is https://github.com/racket/zuo/blob/main/zuo.c - skimmed through it, looks like fairly straightforward C. Quite short implementation.

Looks like the build system will be using Zuo. https://github.com/racket/zuo/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31017057 [104 pts, 27 comments] (Apr 14)