A nifty lisp interpreter

Gojira is a dialect of lisp derived primarily from scheme. It's intended to be a somewhat minimal but entirely usable language, with some experimental ideas and practicality as a goal.

It is something of a pet project for me; a bit more serious than a toy project, but I'm not going to advise you use it over python, etc (yet).

It's also fairly portable, relying on a small subset of the libc for core functionality.

To build

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dragontux/gojira.git
cd gojira
./configure   # the default prefix is /usr/local, use --prefix= to change it
make
make install
make test

To run a file,

gojira example/colors.scm

# To run multiple files in the same environment:
gojira example/colors.scm example/calc.scm

# To continue interpreting after finished running:
gojira -i example/fizzbuzz.scm

Status

Currently supports:

• Decent scheme support with some standard operators (+, -, map, iota, etc)
• Mark-and-sweep garbage collection
• UTF-8 variable names
• (Incomplete) syntax-rules
• Sort of python-ish iterators
• Hashmaps
• Applicable booleans
• Networking with TCP
• A simple module system
• Modules for documention, ansi terminal colors, input prompts, ...
• A (also incomplete) C API for using gojira as an extension language
• some r6rs bytevector functions
• And more!
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Coming soon:

• Tail call elimination
• First-class continuations
• External (C function) linking