Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

261 points david927 | 1 comments | 23 Feb 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

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rootnod3 ◴[24 Feb 25 14:30 UTC] No.43159940[source]▶

Very cliched, but I am working on my own Lisp dialect. I want a more streamlined syntax and keywords, but keep the "batteries included" idea from CL. So, Scheme/Clojure syntax with a CL live image approach, including condition systems, and a fleshed out standard library.

Initially was aiming to use MLIR or at least LLVM but will probably try to handroll to a) reduce dependencies and b) as a learning experience.

The bootstrapped is written in CL with no dependencies and hopefully soon it will be self-hosted.

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sswezey ◴[24 Feb 25 14:34 UTC] No.43159997[source]▶

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Do you have a website or link for this?

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1. rootnod3 ◴[24 Feb 25 15:00 UTC] No.43160314[source]▶

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Not yet. I am still working my way to bootstrapping. I aim to release it some point this year though. I am still figuring out a few bootstrapping things because one of my self-imposed requirements is the bootstrapped in pure CL and no C or other things involved. So basically to be able to bootstrap it from various CL implementations.

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