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Spritely Institute 发布了 Hoot 0.10.0，这是一个将 Scheme 编译到 WebAssembly 的 Guile 编译器后端及通用 WebAssembly 工具链。本次更新包含大量编译器、运行时和 Scheme 标准库（如 SRFI-13、SRFI-60、多个 R6RS 模块）的新增功能与修复，并发布了用于 Lisp Game Jam 的游戏开发模板。
An exploration of how much you can do with LISP when limited to 64K bytes of memory, comparing modern Kilo LISP to historical implementations on the IBM 704 and DEC PDP-1, including vintage sample programs.
Philip (PHF) gives a talk tracing the history of Symbolics Lisp machines and the Genera operating system — from McCarthy's Lisp and the metacircular evaluator, garbage collection, Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos," Tom Knight's Knight TV and the CADR architecture, through to the MIT team founding Symbolics — culminating in a live demo of Genera.
Alex Alejandre explores compiling the Janet language for the Linux x32 ABI to get 32-bit pointers with 64-bit speed, reporting up to ~20-25% memory savings on Arch but a 50% slowdown for that workload — highlighting that x32 offers dramatic potential for pointer-heavy programs but lacks packaging and ecosystem support.
Interview with Peter Bex, a CHICKEN Scheme maintainer and professional Clojure developer, covering his path from C64 BASIC to Lisp, his core contributions to CHICKEN Scheme (numerical tower, irregex, security fixes), and reflections on Scheme's community, Racket, Postgres, and Clojure.
The article explores why Lisp's parenthesis-heavy syntax is perceived as difficult to read, drawing on cognitive science principles like the Stroop effect to explain how syntax design influences human perception.
LispBM is an open-source concurrent Lisp implementation designed for microcontrollers, featuring message passing and WebAssembly support for online testing.
Heol is a 16-bit Lisp programming language designed for the Uxn virtual machine, featuring basic Lisp constructs and currently under development.
Maak.el is an Emacs Lisp tool that serves as a command runner for Lisp machines, offering infinite extensibility and support for Scheme.
SLED is a Scheme-inspired LISP interpreter designed to run on DOS systems and emulators, featuring symbolic computation without numeric types.
Janet is a programming language designed for system scripting, automation, and embedding in larger programs, featuring a rich core library with built-in networking and PEG parsing.
A developer created Idle, a statically-typed, low-level Lisp for WebAssembly GC with interesting features like O(1) method lookups and macros loaded from Wasm modules.
A friendly introduction to Racket, a Lisp dialect used for language-oriented programming, covering its history from Lisp origins to modern applications in education and research.
Opus is a minimal, statically-scoped Lisp dialect implemented in Haskell that uses Continuation-Passing Style and compiles to WebAssembly, featuring operative primitives for expressive power.
The article discusses how WebAssembly can be approached with Lisp-like macros to make its syntax more human-friendly, referencing a past JavaScript implementation by Joel Martin.
CHICKEN Scheme 6.0 has been released, adding full R7RS small language support, UTF-8 strings, bytevector operations, and various module renames and API changes.
Jolt, a Lisp/Scheme language, recently added two features: program images in the style of Common Lisp and Smalltalk for full-state serialization and debugging, and a portable Scheme backend decoupled from the Chez runtime for architecture-agnostic portability.
Symbolics OpenGenera, the legendary Lisp machine environment, is being released free for non-commercial use.
An excerpt from Peter Seibel's 'Practical Common Lisp' that uses a just-so story to explain how Lisp macros work, comparing them to a junior programmer filling in code from notes.
An essay celebrating the beauty of Emacs Lisp macros and homoiconicity, drawing parallels with Hofstadter's strange loops and Escher's art, and introducing tooling like macrostep to explore macros.