Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
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Re: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
#2Anything new happen with Janet?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255116 (August 2021) [114 Comments]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164614 (May 2020) [269 Comments]
Re: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
#3Why use this over Chicken Scheme?
Re: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
#4Why use this over Chicken Scheme?
While we are at this topic: why use Chicken Scheme over this?
Re: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
#5This looks really interesting, going to check this out later today. Anyone using Janet for anything that would care to comment on their experience?
Re: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
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#7Congratulations on it. I use Common Lisp myself, but always great to see energy and passion in other languages, especially in the Lisp family of languages (but I am clearly biased).
Re: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
#8Anything new happen with Janet? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255116 (August 2021) [114 Comments] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164614 (May 2020) [269 Comments]
Some interesting changes since August this year:
- Threaded channels `ev/thread-chan` (`thread` has been deprecated [and removed in latest version [[1.18]]])
- JPM (Janet Package Manager) is now separate, not distributed together with Janet anymore
- Janet binary can directly run image files with `-i`
Re: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
#9Why use this over Chicken Scheme?
I'm unqualified to answer since I haven't used Chicken Scheme, but the name implies that it's a Scheme, right? Janet is a "modern" lisp-like with [] and {} for arrays and maps. Also, I think Chicken compiles to C? Janet compiles to bytecode.
Re: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
#10Why use this over Chicken Scheme?
A copy-paste from "Use Cases" in Janet's README.md:
Janet makes a good system scripting language, or a language to embed in other programs. It's like Lua and Guile in that regard. It has more built-in functionality and a richer core language than Lua, but smaller than GNU Guile or Python.