Rust but Lisp

Readers may enjoy my lisp, Loon, which takes heavy inspiration from Rust https://loonlang.com/guide/ownership

Claims to have all the syntax covered, but not a single example of specifying lifetimes or the turbofish, some of the trickiest rust syntax

I think some comments are missing the upside of it being precisely Rust, without any new semantics. If you want lisp that compiles to machine code, Common Lisp can get reasonably efficient. The purpose of bringing Rust into it is to surface Rust-specific semantics -- which many people quite like!

Unfortunately, given the clear LLM basis of this project, s-expressions aren't a great choice. I've found coding agents struggle really hard with s-expression parentheses matching.

Much better to give them something more M-expr styled, I think a grammar that is LL(1) is probably helpful in that regard.

Basically the more you can piggyback on the training data depth for algol-style and pythonic languages the better.

It seems like this is more like writing Rust in an s-expression syntax instead of having a proper lisp dialect that compiles to Rust, which is cool I guess but not very interesting.

It's quite weird-looking for someone who's done any amount of lisp programming.

How do you change the syntax to eliminate reverse compatibility? I guess you could change the names of most key functions between releases. But to be compatible with rust you would need to make breaking changes every release.

This is probably what Rust's internal ASTs look like. But why would you want to input programs as ASTs?

"no runtime, no GC, just" I am BEGGING every project to not have this LLMism in their docs.

It reads as No X no Y just slop to me every time.

I don't understand why this had to be LLM generated. S-expression syntax parsers are not hard to write. That's rather much the point of S-expressions.

"Lust", or "Risp"?

And for why?

How is pure unbridled AI slop like this making the front page? Voting rings?

I don't even feel bad saying this because clearly OP is just the front for Claude here.