Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderHow does this compare with Lisp-Flavored Erlang (http://lfe.io/)? Any particular advantages or disadvantages? EDIT: answering my own question: http://www.ericbmerritt.com/2012/02/21/differences-between-j...
Interesting - can anyone provide an in-depth comparison to LFE [1]? From a quick look, it looks like Joxa is more similar to Clojure than it is to Common Lisp, whereas LFE takes the opposite appoach. [1] https://github.com/rvirding/lfe
I'm interested by what seems to attract people to a VM/runtime enough to re-implement another language on top of it while preferring a new language to whatever the VM's flagship is. Sticking just to Joxa and the more common ones showing up here, the claimed motivations[0] seem to be: Joxa - fault tolerance; concurrency/scaling; "tool set in which to build DSLs"; (A Lisp on Erlang VM) MagLev - native code & data persistence scaling to very large stores; distributed cache…
The author also implemented Lua and Prolog on BEAM (the Erlang VM)
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 293
- Total comments
- 52
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-02-20 | Joxa: Lisp dialect on Erlang VM | kungfooguru | 39 | 12 |
| 2012-04-25 | Joxa - Concurrent Lisp on the Erlang VM | flashingpumpkin | 2 | 0 |
| 2014-04-22 | Joxa: A functional lisp on the Erlang VM | ch4s3 | 11 | 3 |
| 2015-01-25 | Joxa – Another Lisp on Erlang VM | polskibus | 3 | 0 |
| 2015-06-05 | Joxa – A Modern Lisp for the Erlang VMFirst breakout | giancarlostoro | 112 | 21 |
| 2017-01-20 | Joxa – A concurrent, distributed LispBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | emidln | 122 | 15 |
| 2023-08-29 | Joxa – a concurrent distributd Lisp on the Erlang Virtual Machine | gjvc | 4 | 1 |