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Not great examples. Hazy memories of readme files for projects that sound interesting but fizzle out, sometimes decades ago.

Emacs is probably a success story in that genre. It's possible to use it as the first process booted iiuc. I certainly have days where it's the only process I run after gnome has booted.

Guix has replaced a lot of Linux userspace infra with scheme. Successfully as far as I can tell.

I think there are (non-emacs...) operating systems in various states of progress written in lisp.

Sometimes one finds a compiler written in lisp which doesn't have a runtime in C. Jitawa, Maru are the only two I know of. All the others I've looked at seem to be built on top of C. I think they're both finished/abandoned.

My rebuild everything project is still in the better compiler phase so I might be projecting. Hopefully I'll remember better anecdotes later.



Medley interlisp appeared on HN a few days ago.

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-encounter-with-medley-in...




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