I Made a Lisp
Hi all, powerful open-source Lisp implementations are a dime a dozen, why not try JMurmel instead? The language is inspired by Common Lisp, except it's a Lisp-1, and it is mostly a subset of CLtL-1. Jmurmel can be used standalone with or without the Repl, for "#!"-style hashbang scripts or embedded in a Java program. It features [documentation for the core language](https://jmurmel.github.io/murmel-langref.html) as well as [documentation for the default library](https://jmurmel.github.io/mlib.html), a REPL, an interpreter, a compiler, macros, backquotes,…
I Made a Lisp launched on January 1, 2024 with 7 votes, #1,798 of 4,437 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
A standalone or embeddable JVM based interpreter/ compiler for Murmel, a single-namespace Lisp dialect inspired by Common Lisp - mayerrobert/jmurmel
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi all, powerful open-source Lisp implementations are a dime a dozen, why not try JMurmel instead? The language is inspired by Common Lisp, except it's a Lisp-1, and it is mostly a subset of CLtL-1. Jmurmel can be used standalone with or without the Repl, for "#!"-style hashbang scripts or embedded in a Java program.…
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