Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig

Very interesting. Would be useful to know how this compares to other Lisps and what could be some use cases.

What's the experiment?

Putting closing parentheses on their own lines is extremely cursed.<p>I used to like Lisp-1s when I used Scheme, but having used Common Lisp for a while I&#x27;ve come to appreciate Lisp-2s, if only for silly things like...<p><pre><code> (defun foo (list) (declare (type List list)) (assert (&gt; (length list) 1)) (list (second list) (first list))) </code></pre> Everything else aside it seems like a nice finger exercise for learning Zig.

Need a dialect without using bracket.

I see they use they use the actual lambda character &quot;λ&quot; to create functions which is both cool and also probably makes grepping for functions a PITA. It does look pretty but I would have to search the web or write down the random keystroke to generate that symbol.<p>An example usage:<p>(filter (quicksort &#x27;(5 40 1 -3 2) &lt;) (λ (x) (&gt;= x 0)))