[HN Gopher] A new RISC-V version of uLisp ___________________________________________________________________ A new RISC-V version of uLisp Author : lispm Score : 27 points Date : 2020-03-20 19:51 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.ulisp.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.ulisp.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-20 23:00 UTC)