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Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp

Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and *nix.

The few features that are not standard C (dynamic library loading, compiler specific optimizations), are fairly straightforward. Builtin support for threads, networking, and an event loop First class closures Garbage collection First class green threads (continuations) Mutable and immutable arrays (array/tuple) Mutable and immutable hashtables (table/struct) Mutable and immutable strings (buffer/string) Macros Tail call optimization Direct interop with C via abstract types and C functions Dynamically load C libraries Lexical scoping REPL and interactive debugger Parsing Expression Grammars built in to the core library 500+ functions and macros in the core library Export your projects to standalone executables with a companion build tool, jpm Add to a project with just janet.c and janet.h If you are looking to explore, you can print a list of all available macros, functions, and constants by entering the command(doc) into the REPL.

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