26 stories tagged lisp, newest first.
183 points by andsoitis | 28 comments
A personal blog card by Dave (ratfactor) on the appeal of tiny programs and small programming languages like Forth, Lisp, Tcl, and Lua, with examples of minimal implementations.
155 points by giancarlostoro | 31 comments
Homepage for jank, a native Clojure dialect built on C++ with seamless C++ interop, a Clang/LLVM-based JIT REPL, AOT compilation, and Leiningen-based tooling.
65 points by so-cal-schemer | 17 comments
An unpublished 1980 article by Steven K. Roberts written for Byte about the first LISP conference and AAAI conference at Stanford, with a retrospective introduction.
242 points by misterchocolat | 306 comments
Blog post arguing Common Lisp is the best programming language now that LLMs write code, because its image-based, interactive model shortens the feedback loop.
45 points by veqq | 12 comments
Interview with CHICKEN Scheme maintainer Peter Bex covering the CHICKEN 6.0.0 release, Scheme standardization, Postgres vs MySQL/SQLite, and Clojure.
154 points by spdegabrielle | 43 comments
Website for the sixteenth RacketCon, a conference about the Racket programming language held October 3-4, 2026 at Oakstop in Oakland, California.
12 points by luu | 1 comments
A 2012 blog post by Paul Khuong on computing fixed points in compilation and program analysis, framed through an analogy to strike mandates.
20 points by ibobev | 24 comments
Blog post exploring why Lisp's parenthesis-heavy syntax is perceived as hard to read and what that implies for designing syntax in new languages.
77 points by jjba23 | 15 comments
Blog post walking through parsing Org mode documents with Parsing Expression Grammars using Guile Scheme's (ice-9 peg) module and converting them to HTML.
339 points by gjvc | 44 comments
MIT OpenCourseWare page hosting the twenty 1986 SICP video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, recorded for Hewlett-Packard employees.
424 points by yacin | 231 comments
Ian Henry's 2023 blog post arguing why programmers should try Janet, a small Lisp dialect, and promoting his free book about it.
354 points by nils-m-holm | 98 comments
Book page for Nils M Holm's "Lisp from Nothing", covering minimal self-interpreting Lisp implementations from a metacircular evaluator to a compiler emitting C.
393 points by akkad33 | 112 comments
Homepage of jank, a Clojure dialect programming language built on LLVM with C++ interop.
571 points by Tomte | 348 comments
A Lisp Journey blog post from May 2025 reporting that Hacker News, originally written in Arc, now runs on top of a Common Lisp implementation.
326 points by robenkleene | 50 comments
Online book by Protesilaos Stavrou giving a big-picture overview of the Emacs Lisp programming language, stable version 1.0.0 released 2025-04-12.
328 points by djha-skin | 145 comments
Blog post explaining why the author left Clojure after seven years over slow startup times and chose Common Lisp as their hobby language.
370 points by kurinikku | 211 comments
A Notion-hosted blog post recounting a week-long SICP course taught by David Beazley, covering functions, interpreters, and tail call optimization.
407 points by pieterr | 160 comments
A 2010 blog post by Simon Dobson arguing that Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is the most seminal computer science book and worth rereading.
360 points by Eric_WVGG | 204 comments
A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.
428 points by Kodiologist | 108 comments
GitHub discussion post announcing the release of Hy 1.0.0, a Lisp dialect embedded in Python, after nearly 12 years of development.
341 points by msolli | 82 comments
Official Clojure news post by Alex Miller announcing the release of Clojure 1.12.0, with compatibility notes and new features.
373 points by todsacerdoti | 91 comments
Landing page for CIEL, a batteries-included extension of Common Lisp that remains 100% Common Lisp, with links to GitHub and docs.
334 points by AlexeyBrin | 251 comments
Brian Harvey's essay, written for the Boston Globe in 2011, explaining why the MIT textbook SICP and its use of Scheme revolutionized introductory computer science.
508 points by ducktective | 334 comments
Try Clojure is an in-browser interactive Clojure REPL with a guided beginner tutorial, built with ClojureScript.
328 points by behnamoh | 287 comments
A personal dev-log post explaining why the author is learning Common Lisp in 2023 after experimenting with languages like Nim, Zig, and Janet.
344 points by ianthehenry | 112 comments
Ian Henry's blog post making the case for the Janet Lisp dialect as a simple, fun language for side projects, promoting his free book about it.