Femtolisp – A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

I think femtolisp powers Julia&#x27;s code parsing and helps make Julia so lisp-like. Femtolisp can be run with as an argument to julia: `julia --lisp`<p><pre><code> &gt; julia --lisp ; _ ; |_ _ _ |_ _ | . _ _ ; | (-||||_(_)|__|_)|_) ;-------------------|-----------------------</code></pre>

It is heartening to see folks concerned about being lightweight. I keep running out of space on my 32GB Debian 9 VM because every time I cargo build or npm install I feel like I am downloading all of the internet and generating more of it locally. And then docker build creates a few &quot;diff-only&quot; container images that need another 32GB of attached storage of their own.

Every time I read the rant that is the README here, it makes me smile. It describes the project&#x27;s goals, too, but most of it is humorous remarks on many of the typical problems that come with Lisp implementations. Most of them are about pet-project-class Lisps, but the subtle bashing of Clojure and PicoLisp is a cherry on top. I wish more programmers had capability to write like this.

Having just watched the Berserk anime, I’m curious if anyone knows if the name is inspired by it?