agumonkeyJan 2017Recommends
It seems so.. which makes my LLVM mention false. There's a talk by the author online ▶ this video worth it
in “How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformatics applications” · View on HN
"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2016–2017.
Strange Loop Conference
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Timothy Baldridge presents Pixie, a lightweight Lisp built on RPython, at Strange Loop 2015. It covers C interop, immutable data structures, fast startup and async-by-default IO.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it as the author's own overview of Pixie, with an interesting implementation technique near the end.
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“There's a talk by the author online worth it”
What HN commenters said
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
lemmingJul 2016Recommends
Also check out Pixie's - towards the end of ▶ this video . It's a really interesting technique, and for a Lisp too.
in “Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications” · View on HN
souenzzoAug 2017Cites it
It's not "dead" ▶ this video It's a weekend project, for fun. Functions that are work will not stop to work. I'm using it and I pretend to contribute when I find a problem.
in “Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python” · View on HN
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Functional programmingCompilers, interpreters & program analysisProgramming language designpixielisprpythonlanguage designc interop