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coolbean

coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

god, i really want to drop clojure for some flavor of scheme now, but also... god its so fucking fragmented i cant

like on a conceptual level i think the situation with r7rs is actually quite nice, small version that is standardised with a larger revised version being gradually standardised in smaller parts (e.g. r7rs-red adding and improving data structures, tangerine improving certain numeric types (and adding regex, a bit out of left field i know) and so on)
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coolbean

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but then when actually looking into implementations, chicken is still focused on r5rs with r7rs being an afterthought, racket has a whole subset of its own dialects i dont get, chez is its own dialect of r6rs, mit *is* r6rs, bigloo... it exists for sure i cant figure out much else and this goes on and on

like, i want a scheme, why are so many implementations dialects unto their own
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Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net

Seirdy

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Edited 1 year ago

@coolbean What do you think of Janet? It’s inspired by Clojure.

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coolbean

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@Seirdy honestly dont see much of a clojure resemblence, but i would argue its pretty well suited for what im trying to do which is nice, github readme even compares it to 2 languages i considered more closely, definitely neat
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Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net

Seirdy

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@coolbean Was one of them Lua?

YueScript is actually my favorite language so if you were considering Lua I’d definitely look there.

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coolbean

coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

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@Seirdy lua and guile, yea
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Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net

Seirdy

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@coolbean YueScript is an evolution of MoonScript which is like CoffeeScript for Lua. Has parametric compile-time macros, comprehensions, a super concise functional syntax, the whole shebang.

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