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I used this at a startup and it was pretty bad. It sort of vaguely looks like Common Lisp, but you pretty much have to program in Javascript and there are a lot of weird edge cases (eg (apply #'+ '(1 2 3)) doesn't work because there is no + function in Javasccript.

Just write Javascript.

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If you want to write common lisp to run in the browser, use jscl or the webasm version of ECL.

Parenscript is JS with macros written in CL, which is extremely handy for me.

I tried looking for the webasm version of ECL, but couldn't find it. The official ECL homepage doesn't mention a wasm target. Do you have a link maybe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33113200

For context "jackdaniel" is Daniel Kochmański, ECL's maintainer, so 4 months ago at least it was planned to be merged for the next release.

Branch is at https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/tree/emscrip...

Thanks!

I suspect the work is still ongoing. But maybe not on priority.

This diff from around 3 months ago shows it's likely possible to run it in the browser currently but with a lot of caveats (pretty great nonetheless!).

https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/commit/6af4b...

If you're not a Scheme hater, Biwa Scheme is quite nice, and the Javascript interop is very low friction.

I'm the opposite of a Scheme hater. I developed a whole (smallish) arena roguelike in Scheme.

Personally I'm agnostic between Lisp and Scheme (or whether Scheme is, in fact, a Lisp), but some people have Strong Opinions on this. :-)

I wouldn't describe my opinions as strong, but I have a pretty big preference for the simplicity of Scheme.

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