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Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml

by b-man on 5/26/2026, 2:36:20 PM

https://coalton-lang.github.io/

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by: pjmlp

Also have a look into their IDE, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coalton-lang.github.io&#x2F;20260424-mine&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coalton-lang.github.io&#x2F;20260424-mine&#x2F;</a>

5/27/2026, 6:55:39 AM


by: drekipus

The biggest problem for me is that I can&#x27;t find a simple way to get started with Coalton.<p>I&#x27;m not a common lisp user, but I want to be. I want to learn common lisp, and I have a fair understanding of types. I think types can benefit the user in understanding more, as well as the inbuilt &quot;intelligence&quot; - (aka: How am I meant to know ahead of time that I can&#x27;t add these two objects together? Having the editor tell me as I&#x27;m writing is a great step)<p>I have &quot;mine&quot; their text editor, now I just need some tutorials and sample projects to go with it.

5/27/2026, 12:16:58 AM


by: rixed

Now that the native ocaml repl has landed, can&#x27;t we just slap a s-expression syntax on top of ocaml and call it a day? We would have homoiconicity and the macros that go with it, and still could call &quot;(compile `some-code)&quot;. Isn&#x27;t that enough?

5/27/2026, 5:27:42 AM