Exploring Carp in unison (No not that Unison!)

Next in our occasional series of “Let’s explore…” we’re going to look at Carp, a statically-typed Lisp with a Rust-like lifetime checker.

Carp is a small programming language designed to work well for interactive and performance sensitive use cases like games, sound synthesis and visualizations.

So we’ll explore and see what’s interesting about Carp. We’ll do a bit of research over the next 2 weeks, so when we stream, we’ll have taken literally just a few steps more than a complete newbie! This means YOU can help us to shape the exploration by commenting on our YouTube stream or Discord page, even if you’ve never looked at Carp (or Lisp or Rust) before!

A few random facts about Carp, gleaned from HARD and THOROUGH research (a quick google) to whet your appetite:

• it has Haskell-like static type inference
• … a Rust-like borrow-checker
• … and a dynamic, untyped macro facility
• (excitingly, classic Lisp lists and the famous cons and car keywords only exist for the dynamic compilation phase)
• Carp compiles to readable C,
• … and though an alpha project, it has a surprisingly rich set of libraries already
• … including graphics and animation (its initial intended purpose)

Join us and help shape the exploration by commenting on our YouTube stream or Discord page.

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