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WaspVM
C2014–2021
swdunlop / WaspVM

WaspVM

The Wasp Lisp Virtual Machine, Associated Libraries, and MOSREF

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What it is

The Wasp Lisp Virtual Machine, Associated Libraries, and MOSREF

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-02-11 10:00:44 UTC to 2021-12-23 23:32:22 UTC.

0122014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

6 sources
eggy·Dec 23, 2021
Wow, thanks for those links. I am well acquainted with Lisp, but I never stumbled upon these. The video was great too. I have played with Wasp Lisp which is very cool and the Wasp VM. And checkout how it can spawn drone nodes on different machines[1,2]. I think C and Lisp together are amazing. I have been using them for decades, but J and APL entered my life over 8 years ago, and I am hooked! Checkout a rework of the famous APL GoL demo. It's much easier to understand than the original[3] [1] https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM [2] https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/02/19/spawning-windows-comman... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMslgySQ8nc
In A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life
regularfry·Jun 26, 2020
Strictly speaking, shouldn't it be possible to bodge ansible to send and execute a static python interpreter to bootstrap a host? I've been bitten by "oh no, that Python's too old" or similar several times now. The idea of bootstrapping from only having a `sh` on the far end seems like it ought to be a thing, but (for instance) mitogen only goes part-way. There was a pen-test tool designed on these lines once called Mosquito Lisp, which as far as I can see evolved into something called WaspVM: https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM I have no idea if it's in use, alive, or even working these days. Is anyone working on this side of the problem and I've missed it?
In Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible
eggy·Jan 22, 2020
I came upon uLisp over a few years ago, and was glad to see it show up for the ESP8266 chips. It makes programming these tiny controllers with WiFi enjoyable. Simple things like leaving the parameters blank in a WiFi connect function disconnects it from any current connection. It also blends in with my love of the minimal. I had been playing with Wasp Lisp [1,2] at the time when I found uLisp. [1] https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM [2] https://github.com/doublec/WaspVM
In uLisp – ARM Assembler in Lisp

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