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Joxa – A concurrent, distributed Lisp

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How does this compare with Lisp-Flavored Erlang (http://lfe.io/)? Any particular advantages or disadvantages?

EDIT: answering my own question: http://www.ericbmerritt.com/2012/02/21/differences-between-j...

Not arguing about Lisp 1 vs Lisp 2, but the example seems broken:

    (defun hello-world ()
       'hello-world)

    (: hello-world)

I freshly compiled LFE to test that and what is written above return an error. Besides, you can already call (hello-world) without problem.

Much of that blog/description is broken and it is not describing LFE as it is, or ever was in fact.

+1 for better title.

So I know about Joxa from another HN post related to BEAM based languages. I think that post better represents context for this Lispy-not-Erlang.

I have to say, I really like it, I plan to play more with it, but I think BEAM is solid platform and something I am not jaded with like with JVM, which probably is also excellent platform, just dealing with it /w JRuby soured me for life.

Anyhow, excellent effort, the other Lisp on BEAM LFE is great as well. Off to play with Joxa.

Also, not to be a jerk, but your build is failing :)!

Why are you jaded with the JVM? Would that lead you to choose Joxa over Clojure?

I think I referred of joy of using JRuby, nominally it is much faster, but problems with it are just not worth it. It is very hard to compare Joxa vs. Clojure, but I would definitely appreciate BEAM way more, especially as I like Elixir and Erlang a lot.

I am interested in the "concurrent, distributed" part.

But the web site does not provide any examples, or explanation.

Do you guys plan to add more info on that?

Check out the joxa-otp* source[0]. If you aren't familiar with Erlang, they map up to its OTP concepts[1].

[0] https://github.com/joxa/joxa/tree/master/src

[1] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp

Can this please have a more informative title?

Joxa - Yet Another Lisp /s

Joxa - Concurrent Distributed Lisp

Joxa - A Lisp on the Erlang VM

I would have found that title most informative.

Sure thing, we've updated the title from just “Joxa”.

Neat little project

Lisp is very weird. I was watching a web development video in Lisp ( https://www.liveedu.tv/foamy125/videos/K0QWA-a-simple-landin... ) and now I understand why people prefer PHP.

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