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Concurrency and Metaprogramming for JS

14 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2012-09-06 · latest 2025-10-06

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  1. …on top, but the basis is there, along with demos of exception handling, branching, fibres etc. https://github.com/manuel/wat-js Obviously with forths the callstack is already in userland to implement these things, might be a bit…
    comment by alexisread · 2025-10-06 · in Delimited continuations in lone Lisp
  2. …at Kernel and wat? They use a fundamental operator (vau) to make macros, instead of a special form: 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)
  3. Interestingly Wat ( https://github.com/manuel/wat-js ) handles Dynamic Variables, which fit well with serialized code, in that the serialization boundary can be better partitioned into variables you need to serialize (locals etc.), and…
    comment by alexisread · 2025-04-09 · in React for Two Computers
  4. One evolution of (You're probably aware of re:axisofeval) Kernel is Wat ( https://github.com/manuel/wat-js ), which implements the Vau operator (hygenic F-exprs), full delimited continuations (as opposed to the usual Shift/reset…
    comment by alexisread · 2025-03-11 · in Bel in Clojure (2022)
  5. …(delimited continuations with lexically scoped dynamic binding would come from the lisp side (see https://github.com/manuel/wat-js ). Memory management in Forth can handle multiple memory types eg. https://flashforth.com/ so adding…
    comment by alexisread · 2023-10-16 · in C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
  6. …as well: https://okmij.org/ftp/papers/DDBinding.pdf The above is succinctly implemented in wat: https://github.com/manuel/wat-js (also see forks for more documented versions).
    comment by alexisread · 2023-10-07 · in The Workflow Pattern
  7. I'll drop this here: https://github.com/manuel/wat-js If you have delimited continuations then you can construct coroutines/threads/await/async, promises etc. I guess that this might be suitable for many scenarios thanks to nodejs, but the…
    comment by alexisread · 2023-03-05 · in Building a new functional programming language
  8. Kernel and it's successor wat ( https://github.com/manuel/wat-js ) has some great stuff, I personally prefer open composition from maru https://www.piumarta.com/freeco11/freeco11-piumarta-oecm.pdf as it combines fexprs and macros into one…
    comment by alexisread · 2022-04-27 · in The Mysteries of Lisp (2015)
  9. https://github.com/manuel/wat-js/ https://github.com/shadowcat-mst/wat-pl
    comment by mncharity · 2018-10-22 · in SICP Goodness – The Environment Model
  10. Early versions of wat-js used ["the", "same", "syntax"]. You might find it interesting. https://github.com/manuel/wat-js
    comment by PuercoPop · 2015-05-08 · in Why Lisp?
  11. …by Manuel Simoni, with continuations, dynamic binding, macros and all the other lisp goodies. [1] - https://github.com/manuel/wat-js
    comment by octo_t · 2013-05-13 · in Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler
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    Wat programming language
    story by vacipr · 2012-09-18 · 0 comments
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    Wat Programming Language - fexpr, first-class everything for javascript
    story by agumonkey · 2012-09-15 · 0 comments
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    Wat -- an ultra-lightweight practical Lisp for JavaScript
    story by Peteris · 2012-09-06 · 0 comments