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un-opinionated S-expression syntax and macro system for JavaScript

12 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2015-07-19 · latest 2023-02-27

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  1. …Dak to other attempts in this direction in order to help generate more interest in your work: https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to...
    comment by hackrnusr · 2023-02-27 · in Show HN: Dak – a Lisp-like language that transpiles to JavaScript
  2. …(which I chose "lambda" for) and function declarations (which I chose "function" for). See https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/basics-refere... for examples. Function declarations are statements, and you need to provide a name…
    comment by an_ko · 2020-10-28 · in Eslisp – An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like macros
  3. …to just be an obvious one-to-one syntax replacement. I wrote a brief comparison in the docs: https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to ... " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10266254 I am definitely appreciating…
    comment by richdougherty · 2020-10-28 · in Eslisp – An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like macros
  4. …to be Lisp (rather than just being a JS syntax), and none have macros that are just JS functions" https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to...
    comment by wffurr · 2020-10-27 · in Eslisp – An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like macros
  5. …the standard js AST seems to be not a great fit but i found a S-Expression encoder for js AST https://github.com/anko/eslisp This way instead of having to write s-expressions manually we took a whole circle and are back at js but with…
    comment by jFriedensreich · 2020-10-26 · in An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
  6. eslisp[1] might be up your alley [1]( https://github.com/anko/eslisp )
    comment by lhorie · 2016-01-06 · in Angular 2 versus React
  7. …macros are magic compiler-internal things. Here's a brief comparison to a few other JS-lisps too: https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to...
    comment by an_ko · 2015-09-23 · in Show HN: Eslisp – Minimal JavaScript S-expression syntax and macro system
  8. …this evaluate)? Property access can be sugared to "this.evaluate" with the eslisp-propertify macro https://github.com/anko/eslisp-propertify It's quite convenient if you use it as a transform macro https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master…
    comment by an_ko · 2015-09-23 · in Show HN: Eslisp – Minimal JavaScript S-expression syntax and macro system
  9. …to just be an obvious one-to-one syntax replacement. I wrote a brief comparison in the docs: https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to...
    comment by an_ko · 2015-09-23 · in Show HN: Eslisp – Minimal JavaScript S-expression syntax and macro system
  10. …for example. I've written a (very experimental) S-expression syntax for JavaScript around it here https://github.com/anko/eslisp
    comment by an_ko · 2015-07-19 · in None Programming Language