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LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing (https://www.lispbm.com)

34 points by so-cal-schemer 3 days ago | 6 comments | View on ycombinator

pjsg about 4 hours ago |

I was hoping to find a 'blink the LED' example for the ESP32. Then I'd like to see 'Blink a LED at 1Hz and another LED at 1.234Hz' (or any pair of frequencies where one does not divide the other).

so-cal-schemer 3 days ago |

LispBM (LBM) is a Lisp or Scheme-like programming language for microcontrollers. LispBM also borrows a couple of ideas from Erlang when it comes to concurrency, message passing, pattern matching and process monitoring. The LispBM runtime system can be compiled for either 32 or 64-bit platforms and runs on a wide range of hardware such as, for example, STM32, NRF52, ESP32 or X86. When running the LispBM runtime system on a microcontroller, it can be built on top of ChibiOS, FreeRTOS or ZephyrOS or, if you are adventurous, on bare-metal. LispBM can also be built to run on top of regular Linux (and now even Windows).

Who wouldn’t want a REPL (read eval print loop) on their embedded platform? This is what LispBM is for!

Try it now (WebAssembly)

https://www.lispbm.com/repl-wasm/

BoingBoomTschak about 15 hours ago |

1. I didn't manage to find a non trivial (i.e. Hello World) example anywhere on the website. That should be one of the first things greeting my eyes, especially since the colloquial Lisp family is so large you can't easily infer the syntax.

2. A Lisp without Emacs support other than syntax highlighting?

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