Wasting some time writing a dialect of Lisp hosted on Node.js (for now, port to other Javascript environments if ever useful). Right now, it's not even close to useful.

Rationale

• Javascript is the universal high level VM.

• Javascript as a language feels wrong...

• ...but it has great primitives to build on, and many people are building runtimes.

• I've been missing Lisp.

Goals

• Compile to Javascript, both ahead-of-time and dynamically.

• Don't expose implicit type conversions to Lisp code.

• Lisp-1, mostly Scheme-like API. (Ignore call/cc! car/cdr ignore (), () tests as false.)

• Module system that works with the usual require model.

• Straightforward FFI in and out of JS.

Anti-Goals

• NOT going to try to create idiomatic (or even readable) JS.