[HN Gopher] A new RISC-V version of uLisp
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       A new RISC-V version of uLisp
        
       Author : lispm
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2020-03-20 19:51 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | pjmlp wrote:
       | Great! Probably one of the first managed languages to properly
       | support RISC-V.
        
         | chrisseaton wrote:
         | Is it hard for managed languages to support RISC-V for some
         | architectural reason?
        
           | muricula wrote:
           | RISC-V is basically a MIPs ripoff with healthy architectural
           | inspiration from ARM. There is a linux distro for RISC-V, and
           | there's no reason Python or nodejs etc. can't run on it.
           | https://riscv.org/2015/01/a-linux-distribution-for-risc-v/
        
             | opencl wrote:
             | There is a perfectly good reason that NodeJS does not run
             | on RISC-V Linux, which is that NodeJS has not been ported
             | to RISC-V. Projects like Node (or rather the underlying V8
             | engine) have nontrivial amounts of architecture-specific
             | code.
        
           | pjmlp wrote:
           | I guess not, it is just that the whole ecosystem is still on
           | its infancy, and as usual C and C++ get the first class
           | treatment.
        
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