janet-lang/janet
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A dynamic language and bytecode vm
33 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 14 stories, 19 comments · first 2019-02-15 · latest 2026-09-10
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Anyone have lisp commentary on https://github.com/janet-lang/janet ?
comment by iFire · 2026-07-19 · in A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp -
…"Janet"? Janet is named after the almost omniscient and friendly artificial being in The Good Place https://github.com/janet-lang/janet#why-is-it-called-janet
comment by embedding-shape · 2026-06-02 · in Why Janet? (2023) -
If you're a Clojurist like me, Janet ( https://github.com/janet-lang/janet ) seems to be aimed at this.
comment by invalidOrTaken · 2026-04-18 · in Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software -
…https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel-lang.org Janet looks like is by Calvin Rose (bakpakin) https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/graphs/contributors
comment by grzm · 2025-04-13 · in Why Fennel? -
…think in general "free-time projects" just move a bit slower. Still, it seems to get ongoing work ( https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/graphs/contributors ), so doesn't seem abandoned to me at all.
comment by diggan · 2025-03-07 · in The Landscape of Lisp -
…like its github readme and the FAQ there, provides a good amount of context about the project: https://github.com/janet-lang/janet
comment by thih9 · 2025-01-12 · in Why I Chose Common Lisp -
…if that's something you're interested in doing. [0] https://janet-lang.org/docs/index.html [1] https://github.com/janet-lang/janet [2] https://github.com/janet-lang/spork [3] https://gitter.im/janet-language/community
comment by cfiggers · 2023-06-23 · in Clojure is a product design tool (2015) -
…incredibly quickly. Here was a microbenchmark someone produced comparing various Lisps[0]. [0] https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/issues/324#issuecomment-...
comment by db65edfc7996 · 2022-06-07 · in Joy: A maximalist web framework for Lisp aficionados -
…Personally, i dont use or like lua, but I'm a big fan of one of his other projects, janet[0] [0] https://github.com/janet-lang/janet
comment by esrh · 2022-04-14 · in Fennel: A Practical Lisp -
…on this machine, last week it was these two trivial ones: https://github.com/ciao-lang/ciao/pull/45 https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/pull/915 Typically that’s all that’s needed, in some cases it’s just more of it:…
comment by AlbertoGP · 2022-01-22 · in Keeping POWER relevant in the open source world -
Janet https://github.com/janet-lang/janet https://janet-lang.org/
comment by rackjack · 2021-12-10 · in The future of Python build systems and Gentoo -
Not named after a woman (or rather, named after not-a-woman): https://github.com/janet-lang/janet#why-is-it-called-janet
comment by empthought · 2021-10-13 · in Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language -
…Libc so you can build Janet code as an Actually Portable Executable. Here's the diff you need: https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/compare/master...ahgamut... The Janet team helped us identify a lot of things we needed improve with our C…
comment by jart · 2021-08-21 · in The Janet Programming Language -
Janet is a reference to The Good Place https://github.com/janet-lang/janet#why-is-it-called-janet
comment by Crestwave · 2021-08-21 · in The Janet Programming Language -
…as powerful. The warts annoy me though. So I will continue using Scheme while looking into Janet https://github.com/janet-lang/janet . Janet has most of the things I like about Scheme _and_ Clojure. More experience will tell. I just miss…
comment by clartaq · 2021-05-06 · in Six years of professional Clojure development -
1) the startup time is fantastic https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/issues/324#issuecomment-... Function call throughput is just behind the JIT’ed lisps, which is understandable for a bytecode runtime.
comment by cellularmitosis · 2020-05-13 · in Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp -
…Janet is named after the almost omniscient and friendly artificial being in The Good Place.[0] [0] https://github.com/janet-lang/janet#why-janet
comment by Witoso · 2020-05-13 · in Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp -
Startup time is fantastic! https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/issues/324#issuecomment-...
comment by cellularmitosis · 2020-05-03 · in Joy: Web framework with Clojure syntax, fast startup and low memory usage -
I found several. See https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/tree/master/examples for some.
comment by sseth · 2019-02-20 · in Janet – A dynamic language and bytecode VM