Somewhat tangential, but if you want to use Lisp with JS or Lua, you can use Lum...

whitten · on May 9, 2018

Shawn, Is your Lumen system compatible with COMMON-LISP (Lisp-2), or Scheme (Lisp-1) ? If Lumen is a Lisp-1 then it does not allow the same name to be used for a function and a variable simultaneously. If Lumen is a Lisp-2 then functions and variables are in separate namespaces.

Perhaps someone knows if there a library of code that you can load to make all the common-lisp functions available to you? Would that make your system a common lisp?

Is there an equivalent library you can load to make Lumen a Scheme at some compatibility level?

Thanks for your info and sharing your work.

shawn · on May 9, 2018

The cool thing about Lumen is that it’s literally JavaScript: every lumen expression compiles into equivalent JS (or Lua). There aren’t any special calling conventions.

I would say Lumen is quite close to Scheme out of the box, but without syntax transformers. It wouldn't be hard to implement the missing parts of Scheme.

If you want to collaborate on some of this, shoot me an email. :)