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How does it compare to Robert Virding's LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang)?

https://github.com/rvirding/lfe

An explanation of how they are different, and why creating Joxa was necessary, from the creator of Joxa, Eric Merritt.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3610985

Full disclosure: Eric and I are co-founders of the company he references in that writeup.

Just at a quick glance, I think LFE is a Lisp-2? At least, it bears more resemblance to Common Lisp than Scheme. I don't see any 'funcall' function though, so I could be wrong.

Erlang vm is a lisp 2.

To me this looks like a not as well developed version of LFE.

It depends on what you mean by not as well developed. If by that you mean maturity. Probably, its much newer and has just had its very first early alpha release.

Wasn't wondering about namespace count as much as maturity/completeness.

LFE is a Lisp 2. It has ':' which is the equivalent of funcall.

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