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qbg··on Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
In theory, someone could create a common bytecode as a library. Such a library would probably use the Relooper algorithm from Emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) and JIT the bytecode to Javascript that can then be eval'd for near Javascript-level speed.
qbg··on Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to start saying Yes"
I have been working on a fork of Clojure off-and-on that tries to improve the debugging experience (https://github.com/qbg/clojure). How do you think the stack traces could be improved?
qbg··on Three unique features of Lisp in 2010
I guess in theory you could do it using macros, but if the underlying language lacks certain features you end up with compiler-in-a-macro-style macros. I'm not sure you are really extending the language at that point...
qbg··on What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception
What a computer scientist sees is an infinite tower of reflective interpreters.