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Web Embeddable Common Lisp

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141 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 25 Jun 25 15:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.95s | source
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bevr1337 ◴[25 Jun 25 19:09 UTC] No.44380860[source]▶
Why was LISP not one of the first languages able to compile to WASM? I've been curious ever since the awesome WASM project started tracking different projects. They use emojis for progress and LISP has been a hatching egg.
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1. no_wizard ◴[25 Jun 25 19:37 UTC] No.44381096[source]▶
It sorta has been. As a language design it is already native via the WAT[0] which compiles to web assembly.

[0]: https://webassemblyman.com/wat_webassembly_text_format.html

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2. bevr1337 ◴[25 Jun 25 19:47 UTC] No.44381200[source]▶
Do you know why only sorta? My understanding is that only toy implementations exist right now but nothing production ready. I'm poking around Google and GitHub and not finding any new information.

> Implementing Lisp onto WebAssembly is so obvious that you may wonder why somebody did not have this idea long ago.

I did find this on the Femto GitHub and got a chuckle. Yes, dear author, that is exactly the piece of information I want explained. Too funny.

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3. no_wizard ◴[26 Jun 25 00:55 UTC] No.44383234[source]▶
It doesn’t have to very last trapping of a proper LISP if I recall correctly is why I say kinda.

It’s an S expression language though with some similarities to LISP

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4. bevr1337 ◴[26 Jun 25 01:06 UTC] No.44383311{3}[source]▶
Thanks for clarifying. I've been speculating on this for a while but haven't had the chops to know what to research. The details folks are providing are yielding much better search results.