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It sorta has been. As a language design it is already native via the WAT[0] which compiles to web assembly.

[0]: https://webassemblyman.com/wat_webassembly_text_format.html

Do you know why only sorta? My understanding is that only toy implementations exist right now but nothing production ready. I'm poking around Google and GitHub and not finding any new information.

> Implementing Lisp onto WebAssembly is so obvious that you may wonder why somebody did not have this idea long ago.

I did find this on the Femto GitHub and got a chuckle. Yes, dear author, that is exactly the piece of information I want explained. Too funny.

It doesn’t have to very last trapping of a proper LISP if I recall correctly is why I say kinda.

It’s an S expression language though with some similarities to LISP

Thanks for clarifying. I've been speculating on this for a while but haven't had the chops to know what to research. The details folks are providing are yielding much better search results.

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