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

[@boriskourt]

I absolutely love the way it works with C code. This is an amazing effort!

[@robinmattheussen2395]

"excellent C interop, immutable data structures, lightning-fast startup times, "good-enough" execution performance, and async-by-default io" On one hand, this looks like a really, really neat project (though it seems worked has stopped on it since I first learned about it). On the other hand, couldn't you spend time developing an immutable data structure library for Common Lisp instead? SBCL has pretty fast startup times and great performance, CFFI is pretty good, and async io is now a possibility in CL. So it just lacks modern immutable data structures (though maybe somebody already implemented that?). Why develop another Lisp? Aside from it being probably being a lot of fun I mean.

[@Calm_Energy]

What a cool project. Try saying "double polymorphic function" ten times fast. I especially liked learning the history of attempts to create tracing jits. Starting with mozilla's "trace monkey" and then python's Psycho!

[@SimonClarkstone]

The output of those trig functions was wrong AFAICT; it looks a bit like int bit patterns were being interpreted as floats by the functions.

[@softwave1662]

This is one of the more exciting new languages I know of - I will definitely play with it.

[@shipper66]

I hope i will be able to use pixie to write some neovim plugins.

[@souenzzo]

It's a suitable lisp for "number crunching"?!!!??!???!??!!

[@FernandoBasso]

Great stuff! :)