“It's a really interesting technique, and for a Lisp too.”
Interesting technique near the end of the Pixie talk
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Also check out Pixie's - towards the end of this video . It's a really interesting technique, and for a Lisp too.
"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
30K views · Sep 27, 2015 · 33:13 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2016–2017
Timothy Baldridge presents Pixie, a lightweight Lisp built on RPython, at Strange Loop 2015. It covers C interop, immutable data structures, fast startup and async-by-default IO.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN mentions it as the author's own overview of Pixie, with an interesting implementation technique near the end.
“There's a talk by the author online worth it”HN comment, 2017
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“There's a talk by the author online worth it”
Talk by the author of Pixie
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It seems so.. which makes my LLVM mention false. There's a talk by the author online this video worth it
“It's not "dead" It's a weekend project, for fun.”
Shows Pixie is not dead, a weekend project
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It's not "dead" this video It's a weekend project, for fun. Functions that are work will not stop to work. I'm using it and I pretend to contribute when I find a problem.