THE VIDEO SHELF · lisp language implementation
"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN mentions it as the author's own overview of Pixie, with an interesting implementation technique near the end.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Loop Conference
- Topic
- lisp language implementation
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2017
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From the original HN conversations
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Also check out Pixie's - towards the end of [VIDEO] . It's a really interesting technique, and for a Lisp too.
lemming on Hacker News · 2016-07
In Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applicationsIt seems so.. which makes my LLVM mention false. There's a talk by the author online [VIDEO] worth it
agumonkey on Hacker News · 2017-01
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