EIeismcc·Jul 5, 2020
There’s esp-lisp
https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp
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esp-lisp
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yesco / esp-lisp
esp-lisp
Beta: A small fast lisp interpeter for a ESP8266 as alternative to lua on the nodemcu.
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Beta: A small fast lisp interpeter for a ESP8266 as alternative to lua on the nodemcu.
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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11 sourcesI'm curious how uLisp compares to esp-lisp (https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp) on the esp32, which appears to be the most performant of the microcontrollers listed.
In uLisp: Lisp for microcontrollersI love that jeelabs blog.. Also, some languages running on esp8266:
https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp
https://github.com/zeroflag/punyforth
https://micropython.org/
(and of course lua which i didn't try because its official... https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware)
In Rust on RTL8710 running FreeRTOSEsp-lisp: a small fast lisp interpeter for a ESP8266
31 points · Open discussionSee also esp-lisp [1] for a perhaps more practical Lisp on the platform.
EDIT: I created a new submission [2] for it, should someone want to discuss it.
[1] https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12707111
In Let’s Run Lisp on a MicrocontrollerAnother option for running a lisp (like language) on a small package is esp-lisp [1] running on ESP8622. The ESP8622 has a 32 bit processor running quite fast, and comes with 64K of RAM, so it's clearly not as challenging a platform to run lisp on as the Atmega used here. Its just a software project, though, and leaves the hardware part for others to design.
[1] https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp
In Tiny Lisp ComputerA small fast lisp interpreter for low-cost ESP8266 microcontrollers
2 points · Open discussionA small fast lisp interpeter for a ESP8266 as alternative to lua on the nodemcu
4 points · Open discussionThere's also a Lisp for ESP8266 under development :). See:
https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp
In uLisp – Lisp for the ArduinoESP Lisp: run lisp on ESP8266 chip
4 points · Open discussionThe ESP also runs Lua (by way of NodeMCU), JavaScript (Smart.js, Espruino and JerryScript), Lisp (https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp) and even a form of BASIC (http://www.esp8266basic.com/language-reference.html). I'm sure more are out there - seems like something new pops up every few days.
In ESP8266: A $5 microcontroller with wi-fi that runs Python