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24 alternatives to Runiq, a little Lisp-inspired language that runs on JavaScript
:aquarius: A Lisp-esque, JS-interpreted scripting language - tsortwehttam/runiq
Runiq is a Lisp-inspired scripting language that executes on JavaScript. It provides developers and hobbyists interested in functional programming with a lightweight alternative to JavaScript's standard syntax. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Runiq, a little Lisp-inspired language that runs on JavaScript launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A Lisp interpreter written as an untyped lambda calculus term
2022 · woodrush.github.io · its alternatives →
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Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go - cube2222/jql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Redstart is a lightweight Lisp interpreter written in C++ with a focus on shell scripting. It lets you combine the expressive power of Lisp with the practicality of the Unix shell: you can run commands, capture output, pipe between processes, and still use Lisp syntax for logic and structure. Think of it as writing your shell scripts in Lisp instead of Bash.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4ID
2013 · rhoscript.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — I’m learning Rust and decided to build a universal CLI for running code in many languages. The tool, Run, aims to be a single, minimal dependency utility for: running one-off snippets (from CLI flags), running files, reading and executing piped stdin, and providing language-specific REPLs that you can switch between interactively. I designed it to support both interpreted languages (Python, JS, Ruby, etc.) and compiled languages (Rust, Go, C/C++). It detects languages from flags or file extensions, can compile temporary files for compiled languages, and exposes a unified REPL…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a lisp implemented in Javascript (not very useful!) - jes5199/brid.js
2011 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bun▲295A fast JS runtime Node.js replacement with built‑in tools
Dec 2025 · bun.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, author here. Happy to answer any questions. I had an itch to make a lisp like language that was a thin layer on top JavaScript. Something that could leverage the thriving ecosystem that exists around JavaScript. It's brittle, hot off the oven. Besides being a fan of parenthesis, I think macros fill in a gap that the JavaScript ecosystem today fills in with one-off compilers, bundler plugins and such. Macros can't do everything, but for example I think they have the potential to enable things like JSX, Solid and Svelte style libraries. Take the tour to get a feel for what it can do and…
2023 · daklang.com · its alternatives →
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The notebook-style Common Lisp environment. Contribute to tamamu/darkmatter development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · 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 lisp dialect based on pattern matching and term rewriting - abuseofnotation/termlisp
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lisp rosetta stone to demonstrate modern language features - eatonphil/lisp-rosetta-stone
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Run WebAssembly made for outside the browser, inside the browser.
2022 · runno.dev · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! Just wanted to share a small project I've been working for the last few months. It's a tool called Runal, a text-based creative coding environment that runs in the terminal. It works similarly as processing or p5js but it does all the rendering as text. And it can either be scripted with JavaScript or used as a Go package. It's open-source and cross-platform (linux, macOS, windows). It seems to me that text/ascii-art aesthetics are really popular in creative coding communities, so I though it would make sense to create a tool that runs on a platform which can render text only.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2011 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · domino-clj.github.io · 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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Lisp 2 Go. Contribute to codr7/g-fu development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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What's your tool chain for data and document processing? - jq is great, but limited to JSON; and jQuery limited to HTML; templating systems get messy for non-trivial logic; TypeScript lacks pattern matching and schema support. So I built Lambda — an expressive functional language that combines the power of Lisp, TypeScript, and many DSLs like jq, jQuery, RelaxNG, etc. It has a lightweight 9 MB runtime, built from scratch in C/C++, that provides an end-to-end document processing pipeline (parse → validate/query/transform → layout → render/view). Internally, Lambda parse…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Docker image is a piece of executable code that produces some output given some input. - a11ce/docker-lisp
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Meta programming utilities for C++14. Merged in matt-42/lithium - matt-42/iod
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · skepsi.me · its alternatives →
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Hey HN I’ve been building *W++*, a scripting language that looks like Python but runs on the .NET runtime. It started as a fun side project, but it evolved into something surprisingly powerful — and potentially useful: Key Features: - Python-style syntax with semicolon-based simplicity - Compiles to .NET IL with experimental JIT support - Can run interpreted or compiled - Built-in CLI for managing projects, running, and building - Supports importing NuGet packages and converts them to .ingot modules automatically - MIT licensed and fully open-source You can even do things like: wpp import…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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