C-mera – Lisp syntax with C semantics

There's also xtlang by Andrew Sorensen [1], which layers s-exprs, macros and closures with static types on a low level machine model with C-like semantics (LLVM IR).

[1] https://extemporelang.github.io/docs/reference/types/

At a first glance seems similar to Carp [1] and Scopes [2].

[1] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

[2] https://bitbucket.org/duangle/scopes/wiki/Home

Interesting! I see potencial here for using this as the last step in a x to C transpiler.

The worst of both worlds

Is there anybody that has experience with any of these? I have tried to play for a day or so both with xtlang and Scopes and was disappointed. At the time when I tried Scopes it was not even clear how to properly manage memory. In the case of xtlang I wasn't able to hot swap a function definition at runtime and I didn't understand whether it was me doing something wrong or rather this capability was completely missing from the language.

There's also Dale [1].

[1] https://github.com/tomhrr/dale

This reminds me of a macro language in CL that attempted to be a Turing complete replacement for the C pre-processor. It worked really well actually, but this project seems to be similar but better.