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24 alternatives to Prose emphasizes function application, macros, and compiles to Clojure

a simple language inspired by Io and Ioke that compiles to Clojure and ClojureScript - aaron-lebo/prose

Prose is a programming language that emphasizes function application and macros while compiling to Clojure and ClojureScript. Inspired by Io and Ioke, it offers a simpler syntax for developers working in the Clojure… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prose emphasizes function application, macros, and compiles to Clojure launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A DSL that translates to regex. Contribute to AbhinavOmprakash/luna development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Let-go is a Clojure-like language (~90% compatible with JVM Clojure) written in pure Go. It ships as a ~10MB static binary and cold boots in ~7ms - that's about 50x faster than JVM and 3x faster than Babashka. It has decent throughput on algorithmic workloads - within ballpark of the GraalVM-backed sci. I started this project in 2021 as an elaborate practical joke: I wanted to have an excuse for writing Clojure while pretending to write Go. Jokes aside, it turned out to be pretty decent: it feels like real Clojure, it has an nREPL server (supported in Calva, CIDER, etc.), it's easily…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes. Contribute to borkdude/grasp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    i made an esoteric programming language which i call spellscript. every program is a "spell" written in a "grimoire," and you have to use keywords like summon, enchant, inscribe, and conjure. it's literally read like a spellbook because the syntax consists of all natural language, and newlines are optional. your code can now be an essay, like everybody wants! for example, if you want to print something, you'd write: `begin the grimoire. inscribe whispers of "hello, world!". close the grimoire.` it has variables, dynamic typing, arrays, functions, conditionals, loops, string manipulation,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This proof-of-concept project combines: - Flutter, from Google; - ClojureDart, port of Clojure to Dart from Tensegritics; and - Matrix, a reactive framework from moi. So, yes, we can now program Flutter with a Lisp. Yay. Project includes dozens of working examples and a full implementation of the TodoMVC classic to help tire-kickers play around. Support installing freely available on the #matrix channel on the Clojurians Slack.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A private, browser-only ClojureScript playground powered by the self-hosted compiler.

    2016 · cljsfiddle.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! I'm going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;) Anyways... here's the repo: https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    2015 · kimh.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs - babashka/sci

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimalist type-inferred programming language with procedural macro support - murisi/L2

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2019 · getprogrammingwithclojure.com · its alternatives →

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    Indentation-based syntax for Clojure. Contribute to ilevd/cwp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An interactive functional programming course for children based on clojure and klipse - viebel/kids.klipse.tech

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    * https://sparser.io * https://github.com/Unibeautify/sparser This is my attempt at creating a universal language parser. It attempts to solve a couple of problems: * Support multiple languages * Recursively extend support to languages embedded within other languages * Output a uniform format for all supported languages This is a personal project so any feedback would be helpful. Something interesting I found after I built it is that this parser is not as fast to write output as many other JavaScript parsers, but its output is much faster to read from due to the…

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Clio is a functional, parallel, distributed programming language.

    2019 · clio-lang.org · its alternatives →

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    Next-level syntax for C-like languages :). Contribute to kiselgra/c-mera development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A complete compiler for a simple language (in less than 150 LoC) - 00_readme.md

    2022 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    See what it’s like to program in a language without null.

    2015 · books.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Lisp-like-R: A clojure inspired lisp that compiles to R in R - dirkschumacher/llr

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A rules engine for Clojure(Script). Contribute to oakes/odoyle-rules development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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