Hacker GitHub

← All repos

darius/ichbins

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 239 C

A tiny self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler

8 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2010-11-29 · latest 2023-02-11

Mentions per year 8 mentions · busiest year 2011 (2)
20082026
  1. Reminds me of https://github.com/darius/ichbins/blob/master/ichbins.scm#L2... but written for a wider window, which helps in this style.
  2. An old go of mine at filling in that incompleteness in a minimal way: https://github.com/darius/ichbins It went a little too minimal in having no comments.
    comment by abecedarius · 2021-10-10 · in Lisp in a Weekend
  3. Here's the complete runtime of my garbage-collected self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler: https://github.com/darius/ichbins/blob/master/ichbins.scm#L2... (Yes, it's not the world's fastest.)
  4. Self-hosing, haha. Not that I can think of. My https://github.com/darius/ichbins is shorter but it's a self-hosting Lisp compiling to C.
    comment by abecedarius · 2014-11-05 · in C4 – C in 4 functions
  5. …that with https://github.com/darius/tinyhiss but it's really a toy and still far from freestanding. https://github.com/darius/ichbins did get to the point of compiling itself, but it was a little too limited to make a good start on growing…
  6. ▲ 2
    Ichbins - Self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 400 lines
    story by coderdude · 2011-07-10 · 0 comments
  7. …by dumping core. http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2007-Septe... Darius Bacon's https://github.com/darius/ichbins is a Lisp-to-C compiler written in itself. It includes an interpreter written in C to bootstrap it — ten…
    comment by kragen · 2011-03-17 · in C, The Beautiful Language
  8. ▲ 66
    Self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 384 lines of Lisp
    story by abecedarius · 2010-11-29 · 10 comments