"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it as the author's own overview of Pixie, with an interesting implementation technique near the end.
What it is
Timothy Baldridge presents Pixie, a lightweight Lisp built on RPython, at Strange Loop 2015. It covers C interop, immutable data structures, fast startup and async-by-default IO.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Recommends lemming · 2016-07 · on “Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications”
Also check out Pixie's - towards the end of [this video] . It's a really interesting technique, and for a Lisp too.
Recommends agumonkey · 2017-01 · on “How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformatics applications”
It seems so.. which makes my LLVM mention false. There's a talk by the author online [this video] worth it
Cites souenzzo · 2017-08 · on “Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python”
It's not "dead" [this video] It's a weekend project, for fun. Functions that are work will not stop to work. I'm using it and I pretend to contribute when I find a problem.