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"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge

Strange Loop Conference2 HN recommenders · 2016–2017
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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.

HN mentions it as the author's own overview of Pixie, with an interesting implementation technique near the end.

Functional programmingCompilers, interpreters & program analysisProgramming language design

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@lemming2016 · in “Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications”

Also check out Pixie's - towards the end of [VIDEO] . It's a really interesting technique, and for a Lisp too.

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@agumonkey2017 · in “How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformatics applications”

It seems so.. which makes my LLVM mention false. There's a talk by the author online [VIDEO] worth it

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@souenzzo2017 · in “Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python”

It's not "dead" [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.

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