Hmm, I actually hoped for Clojure on Node.js (don't get me wrong, Scheme is beautiful and this seems to be quite a capable implementation but Clojure is way more practical) but hmm, I hope this gets popular.
Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
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Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#12Hmm, I actually hoped for Clojure on Node.js (don't get me wrong, Scheme is beautiful and this seems to be quite a capable implementation but Clojure is way more practical) but hmm, I hope this gets popular.
I haven't time to play around with Clojure yet, but what makes you think it is more practical than scheme? The primary advantages seem to be JVM interop (which I don't think would be applicable on in a Node.js setting), and easy multi-threading (also not applicable?)
Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#13Hmm, I actually hoped for Clojure on Node.js (don't get me wrong, Scheme is beautiful and this seems to be quite a capable implementation but Clojure is way more practical) but hmm, I hope this gets popular.
Clojure is a big language, and pretty deeply tied to the JVM; I'm not sure how you'd put it on V8. Scheme is pretty practical, though, once you get used to it.
Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#14Hmm, I actually hoped for Clojure on Node.js (don't get me wrong, Scheme is beautiful and this seems to be quite a capable implementation but Clojure is way more practical) but hmm, I hope this gets popular.
Clojure is a big language, and pretty deeply tied to the JVM; I'm not sure how you'd put it on V8. Scheme is pretty practical, though, once you get used to it.
The first version of Clojure was a Common Lisp compiler that compiled Clojure down to JS to be run on Rhino. There's interest in the Clojure community to have a Clojure "Light" that runs on V8 or SpiderMonkey.
Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#15I'm a newb or something but : (cdr ()) makes it explode. What's nil? null nil don't exist I do really like this. I was hoping for something like this where it would allow me to write lisp instead of javascript.
> (cdr '())
=> ()
> (cdr (list))
=> ()Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#16Hmm, I actually hoped for Clojure on Node.js (don't get me wrong, Scheme is beautiful and this seems to be quite a capable implementation but Clojure is way more practical) but hmm, I hope this gets popular.
Clojure is a big language, and pretty deeply tied to the JVM; I'm not sure how you'd put it on V8. Scheme is pretty practical, though, once you get used to it.
Also, there's a .net version of clojure.. no?
Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#17Is there a similar version (something like Heist) but for Python?
Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clojure is a big language, and pretty deeply tied to the JVM; I'm not sure how you'd put it on V8. Scheme is pretty practical, though, once you get used to it.
Also, there's a .net version of clojure.. no?
Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#19Hmm, I actually hoped for Clojure on Node.js (don't get me wrong, Scheme is beautiful and this seems to be quite a capable implementation but Clojure is way more practical) but hmm, I hope this gets popular.
I haven't time to play around with Clojure yet, but what makes you think it is more practical than scheme? The primary advantages seem to be JVM interop (which I don't think would be applicable on in a Node.js setting), and easy multi-threading (also not applicable?)
Heavy functional bias. STM.
Although, I don't know that those things make it more practical than Scheme. Just more desirable to a subset of people who like that sort of thing.
Re: Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser
#20Also, SibilantJS (which seems more mature at the moment, as `npm install sibilant` works, but `npm install fargo` does not):