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

Name: "Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
Description: 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.

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

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.

“There's a talk by the author online worth it” (HN, 2017)

2 recommendations · 1 citations · Talks · intermediate · partly dated

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@lemming Jul 2016 Recommends

on HN thread Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications

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

Interesting technique near the end of the Pixie talk

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@agumonkey Jan 2017 Recommends

on HN thread 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 [this video] worth it

Talk by the author of Pixie

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@souenzzo Aug 2017 Cites it

on HN thread Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python

It's not "dead" [this 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.

Shows Pixie is not dead, a weekend project

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