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𝝺 Byte My Shiny Metal LISP. (A Lisp compiler in Ruby + LLVM)

License: MIT License

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bender's Introduction

Goals of Bender.

Be Syntax compatible with Clojure.
Compatible with clojure.core.
Nimble startup times No JIT by default.
Should be as fast or faster than Lua.
To be Faster than Lua VM without JIT.
Hinley Millner style Type Inference.
Immutable Datastructures.
Tail Call Optimisation.
Lazy/Delayed Evaluation.
Optional Types through meta data.
Can be Compiled to Native Code.
Interpreted while Development.
Be linked with C/C++ Libs.
Use efficient GC.
Designed with Game Development in Mind.
Cross Platform on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, AppleTV, and Switch.
Should use the smallest JIT available. AsmJIT, GccJit.
To be faster than Chez by a Factor of 3 Atleast.
Ease of use over dogma and tradition.
Profiler and Database for type detection.
Favour easier funtion names over Std Lib Dogma.
Ease of Use above Performance and Performance above backward compatibility.
Erlang Styled concurrency.
Use ML to detect types.
Automatic and deterministic memory management (Optional garbage collector and VM)
Inferred static types for speed.
Rust Styled Optional Borrowed Ownership.
Logic Progrming Features compatible with Shen https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos.html
No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying are explicit
Straightforward integration with existing C code
Lisp macros, compile time scripting and a helpful REPL
Threads and atomic references.
Asynchronous programming (i.e. promises & futures).
Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).
Software-Transactional Memory (STM).
The actor model.
Multi Platform (JVM, CLR, Neko VM)

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