attila-lendvai/maru
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Maru - a tiny self-hosting lisp dialect
8 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2021-03-21 · latest 2026-08-23
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Another interesting lisp-like language by Ian Piumarta is Maru, currently hosted here: https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru
comment by taolson · 2026-08-23 · in Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme -
…compile themselves to machine code in 2-4000 LoC altogether (i.e. compiler and assembler included; https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru ). i'm not saying that there are lisp-based solutions that are ready for use in the industry. what…
comment by attila-lendvai · 2025-11-23 · in Racket v9.0 -
…https://github.com/manuel/wat-js maru has this vau operator implicitly, rather than explicitly: https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru
comment by alexisread · 2025-04-28 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) -
You might want to take a look at the piumarta branch of https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru/tree/piumarta This is Attila's attempt at more formally evolving maru through several iterations, and includes gezeira etc. Personally I find…
comment by alexisread · 2025-03-11 · in STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming (2012) [pdf] -
…easy to lose track of changes while developing - there's no formal iteration boundary. This guy https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru Has been experimenting with git branches for this. https://github.com/crcx/retroforth/blob/master/doc/RET…
comment by alexisread · 2023-12-31 · in Pascal in Forth (1983) -
…might mesh well. In any case, if you're looking for a self hosting lisp that runs on bare metal, https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru has been out for a few years.
comment by alexisread · 2023-10-16 · in C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018) -
…compiled with gcc or clang, 70% the speed of C with gcc. Current maintainer is Attila Lendvai https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru/tree/piumarta
comment by alexisread · 2022-09-09 · in Graydon Hoare: 21 compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes -
Here's another interesting one I just noticed: https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru/blob/maru.10/source/a...
comment by akkartik · 2021-03-21 · in SubX: A minimalist assembly language for a subset of the x86 ISA (2019)