Clasp – Lisp on LLVM

https://github.com/drmeister/clasp

by eatonphil • 11 years ago

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Slackwise• 11 years ago

This just reminds me of how much I'd like to see Clojure on LLVM also.

moomin• 11 years ago

PixieLang exists, and probably does most of what you'd want: fast boot, FFI and Clojure-style LISP.

xaa2• 11 years ago

Thank you so much for this reference. The moment I grokked Clojure, I immediately thought "someone should port this to LLVM". The JVM is awful in a thousand ways, and it is quite surprising to me that Rich Hickey would devote so much time to getting many details right but get this big one wrong.

Trying it out now ;)

j_m_b• 11 years ago

I've been fantasizing about language for LLVM that would be a lisp that compiled to the intermediate representation (IR) emitted by the LLVM frontend. The main feature of the language would be that ANY code that can be compiled with LLVM to its IR would be usable as a library, no matter the language it was written in. This would be a true glue language.

tomjen3• 11 years ago

I really hope LLVM becomes what the JVM has partially become: a meta eco system where new languages can be made because they don't have to spawn an entire ecosystem, but can grow on an already existing system.

That said with everything moving to the browser (or more correctly a zero install thickis client with remote storage) I am not sure it matter than much as more and more of the work seems to be done in browsers.

falcolas• 11 years ago

with everything moving to the browser [...] I am not sure it matter than much as more and more of the work seems to be done in browsers.

With asm.js as a potential LLVM target, I don't think it will matter. The browser could just serve as another compilation target with a specific foreign language interface.

mark_l_watson• 11 years ago

Some advice please: which OS should I build for, to have the easiest experience kicking the tires? OS X or Ubuntu 14.04?

I still really enjoy Common Lisp (even though it seems like I spend my time with Clojure or Haskell) and Clasp, when it is mature, will be a good incentive to use Common Lisp for more development use cases. (It is easy enough to build stand alone executables with SBCL, CCL, and Franz, but having a smaller executable would be really good, if indeed the executables would be smaller with Clasp).

drmeister2• 11 years ago

I developed it on OS X so that's a good choice. The README on github lists the linux distributions that it's been compiled on.

bezzi• 11 years ago

Why there is something new about lisp here every fucking day???

drmeister2• 11 years ago

Because it's the only language worth talking about :-)

Clasp – Lisp on LLVM

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