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A R4RS Compliant REPL in 7 KB — mentioned by so-cal-schemer

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:50:28 GMT

Here is another tiny and highly portable Scheme that I submitted along with this: https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13589 Ribbit: A portable, compact and extensible Scheme implementation to 25 targets. R4RS compliant. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733898

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A R4RS Compliant REPL in 7 KB — mentioned by so-cal-schemer

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:25:48 GMT

Compact language implementations are increasingly popular for use in resource constrained environments. For embedded applications such as robotics and home automation, it is useful to support a Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) so that a basic level of interactive development is possible directly on the device. Due to its minimalistic design the Scheme language is particularly well suited for such applications and several implementations are available with different tradeoffs. In this paper we explain the design and implementation of a compact Scheme system that supports a REPL, is extensible and…

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A R4RS Compliant REPL in 7 KB — mentioned by leonardool

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:35:47 GMT

Hi! One of the authors of Ribbit here (@leo-ard). One of our goals was to reduce as much as possible a R4RS compliant REPL, because it is quite reasonably sized and doesn't support macros (we managed to fit it in 6.5KB!). We considered R7RS, but it was a bit too ambitious for a first goal. We plan on supporting R7RS eventually ! If you want to read more, section 4 of "A R4RS Compliant REPL in 7 KB" explains our rationale behind the choice of R4RS : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13589

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A R4RS Compliant REPL in 7 KB — HN submission

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:36:00 GMT

A R4RS Compliant REPL in 7 KB

3 points; 2 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.