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"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge

Strange Loop Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Functional programmingCompilers, interpreters & program analysisProgramming language design

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN mentions it as the author's own overview of Pixie, with an interesting implementation technique near the end.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's a really interesting technique, and for a Lisp too.”

    Interesting technique near the end of the Pixie talk

    lemming, 2016-07 · Recommendation · in “Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications”

  2. “There's a talk by the author online worth it”

    Talk by the author of Pixie

    agumonkey, 2017-01 · Recommendation · in “How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformatics applications”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: pixie, lisp, rpython, language design, c interop

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