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Now we have a "solid" Lispy alternative to imperative languages that compile to JS.

Nice surprise Rich !

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You mean other than Parenscript[1], which seems to have been written about 4 years ago?

Edit: Parenscript was just the first to come to mind, but check out http://www.cliki.net/JavaScript

[1] http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/

Version 0.1.0 came out in early 2005, so it's been around more than six years.

See this comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2788849

ClojureScript seeks to address the weak link in the client/embedded application development story by replacing JavaScript with Clojure, a robust, concise and powerful programming language. In its implementation, ClojureScript adopts the strategy of the Google Closure library and compiler, and is able to effectively leverage both tools, gaining a large, production-quality library and whole-program optimization. ClojureScript brings the rich data structure set, functional programming, macros, reader, destructuring, polymorphism constructs, state discipline and many other features of Clojure to every place JavaScript reaches.

There are a LOT of in-browser scheme-like variants.

A few are listed here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... (which also includes Clojurescript)

That ClojureScript is the (mostly experimental & now obsolete) work done by Chris Houser quite some time back. These two are not the same thing.

Thank both you and lukev for pointing it out.

Edit: Now they are both on the list. Gotta love Github's wiki.

That ClojureScript is actually a different project, and is a much less complete implementation. IIRC, it's not a true compiler like the new ClojureScript, but just uses macros to transform forms to Javascript. This announcement probably makes that one obsolete.

Yes, but the folks that created this one have a high reputation, and this version goes to a far extent to maintain strong performance.

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