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.

Sponsoring

Please consider sponsoring this project at Patreon.