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wisp

A little Clojure-like LISP in JavaScript

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What it is

A little Clojure-like LISP in JavaScript

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Another datapoint - wisp, my favorite LISP-to-JS transpiler, also apparently works fine: https://github.com/wisp-lang/wisp/issues/174 This makes for a pretty awesome…

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This week on Hacker News

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HN mentions by year23 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-10-10 12:39:18 UTC to 2023-09-08 21:22:40 UTC.

02462012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 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): 2 mentions; 1 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

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

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20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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 UTC211
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 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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axelrosen·Jan 7, 2019
Never heard of js-cl, but Parenscript definitely isn't. It's a glorified s-exp notation for javascript. ClojureScript doesn't compile to plain js. It maintains a lot of it's characteristics at run-time. And this is possible because Clojure does something very similar on the JVM. This in turn enables you to write code targeting both platforms without too much effort. WISP is a little more like the Parenscript of Clojure (though it's written in javascript itself) https://github.com/Gozala/wisp/blob/master/doc/language-esse...
In How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp expert's perspective?
rcarmo·Oct 30, 2014
Personally, I find https://github.com/Gozala/wisp to be a whole lot more coherent and readable (and probably more mature, too, even though it has much less documentation). wisp also generates very nice JS code (and source maps), and my only real problem with it is that it lacks the time and resources ClojureScript clearly commands at this point. (edited to add: wisp also has a fair amount of activity: https://gitter.im/Gozala/wisp)
In Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript

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