what is this?

A work in progress (compiler|interpreter|?) for a subset of Clojure.

I wanted to learn more about interpreters, and rather than create my own language, I decided it'd be more useful to interpret an existing language and learn more lisp along the way :)

Goals

• Implement enough of Clojure to be useful
• Have some fun
• ??
• Port parser and one mode of execution (likely AST interpretation) to be compatible with Fable
• Support generation of .NET types for Unity/Godot modding
  • Generating classes and methods without params/args
  • Inheriting from a base class

Future Work

• Compilation of Clojure into LambdaExpression's or another intermediate form
• Experiment with dynamic method generation or libgccjit/MIR
• LSP impelementation with a focus on accurate type tracking and potential solutions from inference
• Transpilation into Fable's AST for some profit :)

Motivations Pt 2

• If I spend any more time fighting with Mono v462 and the FCS API I'm going to uninstall programming.so and stop flipping tables

Design (WIP)

• Reader using FParsec to parse strings into Clojure's basic forms (lists, vectors, numbers, etc)
• WIP: Macro evaluation refactor
• Recursive Eval function that walks the AST and evaluates the forms
  • Function execution is interpreter
• .NET Interop
  • Reflection for . and Namespace.Class/Mem
• Exploring the use of immutable data for the interpreter's evaluation loop.

Demo: Hosting in Valheim with BepInEx

• UnityRuntime used for console output display