2024-10-11 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp Total comment counts : 12 Summary The article discusses a simple experimental Lisp compiler written in uLisp that compiles Lisp functions into RISC-V machine code. It can be run on RISC-V cores like those in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, building on an earlier project that compiled Lisp to ARM. The compiler is based on the structured nature of Lisp, removing the need for separate tokenizing or parsing, and is compatible with Common Lisp for displaying generated code, albeit not for execution....