[timdeve]

Don't get too hung up on the "lisp" in that title. I think the language would better be described as statically typed, with s-expr syntax, inspired by Clojure|Rust|ML and with a lispy language accessible for use in macros. But that's less catchy.

Source: I contribute to the language.

[bmitc]

Is it suitable for real-time embedded programming? How about audio libraries? Does it have microcontroller support?

I've heard about Carp before, but haven't ever tried it. I've longed for an embedded ML language, and I like Lisp and Scheme, so this seems right up my alley. Apologies for all the questions, but I'm just curious about potentially applicability to some things I have in mind.

[timdeve]

The goal is certainly to have a language suitable for "real-time applications" (read games/audio), that's not my area of expertise however so your definition of real-time might not be different than mine.

As it compiles to C, any microcontroller with a compiler that supports something that looks like C can work. I've run Carp code on a GBA (as mentionned somewhere else in the comments), esp32, esp8266, as well as Arduboy & Pygamer via Arduino.

There is some more information about running Carp on embedded platforms in the docs[0].

One last thing I wanted to mention is that Carp is still very much in flux so it might not be the best choice for longterm projects, but if you're interested in playing with the language there is usually always someone to answer questions on the Gitter[1].

[0] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/Embedded....

[1] https://app.gitter.im/#/room/#eriksvedang_Carp:gitter.im

[bmitc]

Thanks for the response and details! I'll try and start playing around with it.