Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kkylin 1032 days ago
Isn't Julia's parser still in Scheme?
2 comments

For now, yes. The upcoming 1.10 release (which is now in beta) will switch to a pure Julia parser as the default (with the old Scheme parser available as an option).

Not because of any fault with Scheme per se (afaik), just that contributors to Julia are more likely to know Julia than Scheme, so it makes sense from a maintanence point of view.

note that in 1.10 scheme is still used for lowering (simplifying AST to IR which is a lot of code for julia)
Femptolisp, a "Scheme dialect"