Ale is a Lisp Environment

It is a Lisp-1 that compiles down to an abstract machine representation. The frontend and backend are written in Go, while the runtime is being written in Ale. How’s that for a slice of fried gold?

How To Install

Make sure your GOPATH is set, then run go get to retrieve the package.

go get github.com/kode4food/ale/cmd/ale

Run Some Source

Once you’ve installed the package, you can run it from GOPATH/bin like so:

ale somefile.ale

## or

cat somefile.ale | ale

Start The REPL

Ale has a very crude Read-Eval-Print Loop that will be more than happy to start if you invoke ale with no arguments from your shell.

Current Status

Still a work in progress, and the compiler is pretty fragile, but that will change rapidly.

Show Me The Code

Ale is maintained at GitHub.