miniblog.

I've been learning some CMake, and it's a weird language. "ON" is used for booleans, it puts code in .txt files, but it still has a lispy macro system. I suspect the vast majority of people (including me) learn CMake from a large preexisting build. That will bias impressions.

My toy programming language has a pluggable frontend, so you can change syntax easily. The first syntax I built was lispy. I've gradually been adding statement oriented C-ish syntax. I think it would awkward to write a statement oriented lispy syntax. Do any such PLs exist?

Adding a tail-call optimisation macro (for self-calls) is a really fun lispy project: https://github.com/Wilfred/tco.el/blob/179b82cacbd59692e3c187b98f87a1f453923878/tco.el#L51-L63 Ironically, I've implemented TCO using a recursive function that can blow the stack.