LispSyntax.jl

Having a language that hides it's lispness behind a python-like syntax can be good for the lisp community though, even if they don't use them. People do have prejudice against those parenthesis, so having an entry point that is "Python-like" (the most popular language for beginners and non programmers) that can still teach the core features of Lisp (everything is an expression, sort of easy AST manipulation, macros, parts of CLOS like multiple dispatch) will only help people appreciate the languages it was inspired on. And possibly they'll also feel the limitations of non sexp macros and decide to actually move to racket or common lisp to free themselves from those restrictions once they become aware of them. Possibly those people will even do something like Clojure for the Julia compiler (a mature version of [1]), with an entire communit

Just swap out the parser ;) -https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl

Yes, it's a string macro which is essentially a reader macro. We also have regular macros that operate on Julia's AST. There's some really useful and approachable info here: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/inde... You can think of Julia as a Lisp-1 with opt out hygenic macros hiding behind Algol syntax. However, the AST is very lispy: julia> dump(:(x^2 - 1)) Expr head: Symbol call args: Array{Any}((3,)) 1: Symbol - 2: Expr head: Symbol call args: Array{Any}((3,)) 1: Symbol ^ 2: Symbol x 3: Int64 2 3: Int64 1 The `:` is how you quote code in Julia, and `dump` is just a convenient function for printing nested data-structures. Furthermore, you can see this package https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl for a string ma

I mostly got used to them, but I do enjoy playing around with https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl for more directly lispy sytanx in Julia.