Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp

This looks so awesome! It's got the best parts of a lot of languages. This is what sticks out to me: - Really simple lisp like scheme, but reminds me of lua (and not bloated like CL) - Has resumable fibers, no callcc like scheme - Not missing the lack of lists tbh - A module system that doesn't feel awkward like CL - A built-in package manager (unlike CL) - Good lua and C support - Threads have a…

Oh hey! Nice to see this on the front page here. I love Janet -- I've been using it for about year and a half, and it's now my go-to scripting language when I need something more powerful than bash, or when I want to hack on goofy little side project (some examples in my profile). Parsing expression grammars (think, like, declarative parser combinators?) are a really great feature for ad-hoc text parsing -- and nicer than regular expressions, in…

I was a donator to Janet for a little while and then eventually stopped. I think it would be a great programming language if it arrives 5~10 years earlier. Highlights to me are: green thread, TCO, easy distribution, great interop with C, flexibility of choosing between imperative vs immutable data structures. However, I just couldn't find a good use case for it. For embedded programming, I would always choose Lua if not using Zig/Rust directly. For low latency backend stuff…

Lisp is very cool. But one thing I do not like is that the syntax style `(fun a b c)` loses out to the less-symmetric "OO" style `a.fun(b, c)` when it comes to IDE auto-completion. And for me the IDE help is important to provide a smooth developer experience and minimize wasted brain energy. I'd like to find a way to make the editing and auto-completion work better. I think the way IDEs (and maybe our brains) work is: "here…