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by daliwali 1202 days ago
Really reminds me of Parenscript[0], which is a subset of Common Lisp that transpiles to JS with no runtime. It's basically a thin skin around JS and it feels more like writing JS with a Lisp syntax.

What I feel is missing from Parenscript is runtime macro-expansion, hard to do without using JS to build the AST.

[0] https://parenscript.common-lisp.dev/
1 comments
daakus 1202 days ago
Ah, I remember seeing this a long time ago. It seemed like something CL fans would enjoy, but to me it felt verbose. I guess this is my Clojure preference showing.

Regarding runtime macro-expansion - since Dak is written in JavaScript, it comes for free.

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