C-mera – Lisp syntax with C semantics

https://github.com/kiselgra/c-mera

by lukego • 7 years ago

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antisemiotic• 7 years ago

At a first glance seems similar to Carp [1] and Scopes [2].

[1] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

[2] https://bitbucket.org/duangle/scopes/wiki/Home

lukego2• 7 years ago

I see it as more similar to cl-cpp-generator (https://github.com/plops/cl-cpp-generator). It's not a new programming language: it's a Lisp surface syntax for C that inherits Lisp metaprogramming capabilities.

ape4• 7 years ago

The worst of both worlds

jdmoreira• 7 years ago

Interesting! I see potencial here for using this as the last step in a x to C transpiler.

lukego2• 7 years ago

Yes. I see this as interesting if you want to generate human readable idiomatic C code as the backend of a transpiler for a DSL. That's different to most of the other links being posted on this thread.

vnorilo2• 7 years ago

There's also xtlang by Andrew Sorensen [1], which layers s-exprs, macros and closures with static types on a low level machine model with C-like semantics (LLVM IR).

[1] https://extemporelang.github.io/docs/reference/types/

divs1210• 7 years ago

There's also Dale [1].

[1] https://github.com/tomhrr/dale

Is there anybody that has experience with any of these? I have tried to play for a day or so both with xtlang and Scopes and was disappointed. At the time when I tried Scopes it was not even clear how to properly manage memory. In the case of xtlang I wasn't able to hot swap a function definition at runtime and I didn't understand whether it was me doing something wrong or rather this capability was completely missing from the language.

vnorilo2• 7 years ago

I'm no xtlang expert, but I've seen first hand Andrew and others hotswapping functions on the go, so it is definitely supported. Ben Swift [1] is the guy who has written a lot of the guides and documentation, and when I met him he was really friendly and approachable.

[1] https://cecs.anu.edu.au/people/ben-swift

mruts• 7 years ago

This reminds me of a macro language in CL that attempted to be a Turing complete replacement for the C pre-processor. It worked really well actually, but this project seems to be similar but better.

C-mera – Lisp syntax with C semantics

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