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As JavaScript becomes increasingly ubiquitious thanks to budding frameworks like node.js, the lisp->javascript compilers start to look more interesting. Parenscript [1], Scriptjure [2] and Scheme2Js [3] are the respective projects for Common Lisp, Clojure and Scheme, and they're all relatively mature.

More recently, Jacob Rothstein started Sibilant [4], which I've been collaborating on [5]. The main difference in approach is that we're trying to design a new lisp dialect optimized for the task of writing JavaScript, rather than compiling from an existing lisp dialect that wasn't designed with this purpose in mind. Since it's such a young project, I wouldn't recommend it for production environments now, but you should keep an eye on it if you're interested in this sort of thing.

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[1] http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/

[2] http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/scheme2js/

[3] https://github.com/arohner/scriptjure

[4] https://github.com/jbr/sibilant

[5] https://github.com/evanrmurphy/sibilant

parent evanrmurphy 16 years ago

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