[gekkonier]

I would consider writing a small standardlib for your lisp. While writing it you will encounter things you can optimize perhaps.

[KineticLensman]

Cool! That is a great offer. If you watch my progress SITREPs at [0] you'll get a feel for when it might ready. I'm behind on the SITREP updates but I'm in fact just debugging macro expansion (step 8) at the moment.

[0] https://www.non-kinetic-effects.co.uk/blog/2019/01/21/MAL-2

[nikofeyn]

i read his comment as “[if i were you] i would consider...”.

[gekkonier]

Yes, I'm sorry. It was meant as an answer to 'Incidentally, I've been wondering what app I should write to test my Lisp.'

[KineticLensman]

My bad! And I can't even claim not to be a native-English speaker.

It is a good idea and in fact I'm already sort of going down that route. I'm finding that using macros to define new functionality (rather than extend the core set of built-in functions) is a good way to tease out implementation issues as they somewhat stress the underlying mechanisms.

I think my first lib functions will be IO-related.

[selimthegrim]

I too might have a couple things in mind. How do I get in touch with you (gp, KineticLensman although happy to hear from immediate parent too)?