Homoiconic runtimeless programming language

2021-10-18

{:tags [:programming-languages] :draft true}

The problem

C is a small language that does not need a runtime. It is thus easy to use C programs from programs written in other programming languages. C's syntax is not as malleable as Lisp's syntax. Lisp needs a runtime because it has garbage collection. A runtimeless language that would have a Lisp like homoiconic syntax would be useful.

Homoiconicity makes it possible to have a macro system that let's the language to be extended by macros written in the language itself.

Links

• Extempore ⬀ is a statically typed language without garbage collection that has macros written in Scheme

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