[StefanKarpinski]

The parser and some lowering passes are still written in femtolisp. There has been some discussion of switching to the native JuliaParser package [1]. However, JuliaParser doesn't implement the fairly tricky lowering passes that the femtolisp parser does. I personally would prefer to have the parser in Julia, but at this point the most pressing issue with parsing and lowering is speed – so it's possible that the parsing and lowering will be converted to C instead.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaParser.jl

[nickpsecurity]

Thanks for the update. Decent plan. An alternative would be to code it in SPARK Ada for speed and correctness. Has side benefit that each component done that way won't be touched by halfassed developers because they lack the will to learn it. Not quick n dirty enough for them. ;)

[vanderZwan]

> I personally would prefer to have the parser in Julia, but at this point the most pressing issue with parsing and lowering is speed – so it's possible that the parsing and lowering will be converted to C instead.

But isn't Julia supposed to be fast? ;)

[nickpsecurity]

And this is just a parser. Nothing too fancy. Analysis should be able to produce some efficient code for one.