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24 alternatives to Term-Lisp – A Lisp, based on pattern matching and term rewriting
A lisp dialect based on pattern matching and term rewriting - abuseofnotation/termlisp
Term-Lisp is a programming language that combines Lisp with pattern matching and term rewriting capabilities. It is designed for developers interested in functional programming paradigms and symbolic computation. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Term-Lisp – A Lisp, based on pattern matching and term rewriting launched in 2024; 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 →
- 2RL
- 3CD
2012 · scattered-thoughts.net · 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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Rust but Lisp▲218Rust but LISP. Contribute to ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 6PA
Parinfer - simpler Lisp editing
2015 · shaunlebron.github.io · its alternatives →
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Lisp in C#▲144a custom Lisp. Contribute to codr7/sharpl development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · 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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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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Moved to Forgejo! Contribute to krig/LISP development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 11ID
2013 · rhoscript.com · its alternatives →
- 12IW
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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Thread-safe Common Lisp style conditions and restarts for Clojure(Script) and Babashka. - IGJoshua/farolero
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · turtleware.eu · its alternatives →
- 15FS
Hi HN! I've been working on the fuse programming language, it's a statically typed purely functional language with higher-kinder types and ad-hoc polymorphism. It compiles to the GRIN whole-program optimizer, producing LLVM-generated native code. Fuse supports ADTs, Generics, Type Methods, Traits, Pattern matching etc. all in a functional style with no mutations. I’ve been developing the language for 5 years, with code written in Scala. I’ve started coding the language from the base of System F that was implemented as part of the book: Types and Programming Languages (tapl). And then…
Aug 2026 · fuselang.org · its alternatives →
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2010 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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I'm excited to introduce a new beta version of LIPS Scheme. The most important features of this
Aug 2026 · lips.js.org · its alternatives →
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An example of PEG usage. Contribute to sebcat/move-literals development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lisp Shell▲120A fully-featured lisp/scheme shell written in Racket. - DexterLagan/lsh
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21FS
2016 · fullstacklisp.com · its alternatives →
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An experimental minimal chat written in Common Lisp - ryukinix/lisp-chat
2017 · github.com · 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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Hi HN — I’ve been working on Gene, a general-purpose, homoiconic language with a Lisp-like surface syntax, but with a core data model that’s intentionally not just “lists all the way down”. What’s unique: the Gene data type Gene’s central idea is a single unified structure that always carries (1) a type, (2) key/value properties, and (3) positional children: (type ^prop1 value1 ^prop2 value2 child1 child2 ...) The key point is that the type, each property name, each property value, and each child can themselves be any Gene data. Everything composes uniformly. In practice this is…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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