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by rjsw 3 days ago
... or just use Common Lisp.
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dismalaf 3 days ago
Which is what I do. One can dream though right? Of a world where Ruby stayed just a tad more Lisp-y and less Perl/C/Smalltalk/Unix-y.

Also I'm working on a DSL/Macros that give me more Ruby-esque quality of life things in Lisp.

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ralphc 3 days ago
Common Lisp, and even more so Racket, has reader macros. With a little help from LLMs you might be able to get a Ruby-like language that translates into Lisp.

As a last resort look at Racket's "Rhombus" language, it's basically an infix, Python-like syntax on top of Racket. You can use that or see how they pull it off and add Ruby constructs to it.

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tmtvl 3 days ago
Have you checked out dieggsy's Whisper (<https://sr.ht/~dieggsy/whisper/>) yet? It's based on Arne Bab's Wisp (SRFI 119).
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vindarel 2 days ago
and the newer Moonli for CL: https://moonli-lang.github.io/ (:
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