[RaycatRakittra]

Every time I hear a glowing testimony like this, I get a little hopeful but then I remember the current state of the JavaScript ecosystem. Perhaps you could shed some light on this?

Is it possible to make externs or definitions of library functions? How much time does it take to take a fresh library and write those externs to access them in Parenscript land? And what limitations did you run into?

Cheers.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Parenscript is nice because you don’t need complicated externs: it has a pretty straightforward mapping to JS symbols and no runtime. However, the downside is that it feels more like “JavaScript with a new syntax” than like Common Lisp or another lisp. I personally find the trade-offs acceptable because it’s fees fairly natural to right JS in a lispy style, but it’s not the “pure” experience of something like Clojurescript.

[moonchild]

I've heard good things about jscl[1]; since it's bootstrapped from regular cl, it's probably less javascript-y.

1. https://github.com/jscl-project/jscl

[fiddlerwoaroof]

The tradeoff is that it actually has a runtime which means it adds to your bundle size and (potentially) makes interop complicated.