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

Strange Loop Conference · 30.5K views · 2015-09-27 · 33:13

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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.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2017

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Functional programmingCompilers, interpreters & program analysisProgramming language design
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agumonkey · 2017-01 · Recommendation

It seems so.. which makes my LLVM mention false. There's a talk by the author online [VIDEO] worth it

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lemming · 2016-07 · Recommendation

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

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souenzzo · 2017-08 · Reference

It's not "dead" [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.

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