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Carp is a statically typed Lisp compiler that compiles Lisp-like syntax directly to C source code, enabling seamless integration with existing C libraries and low-level system programming. It manages memory deterministically at compile time using ownership tracking and linear types, eliminating garbage collection pauses and runtime overhead while ensuring type safety through an inferred static type system. The language distinguishes itself through compile-time macro expansion and metaprogramming capabilities, allowing code generation and transformation before final binary output. It enforces
Lumen = Lumen is a very small, self-hosted Lisp for Lua and JavaScript. It provides a flexible compilation environment with an extensible reader, macros, and extensible special forms, but otherwise attempts to match the target runtime environment as closely as possible. You can get started by…
The main features of sctb/lumen are: Scheme Implementations.
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