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wisp is an open source programming language created in 2012 by Santosh Rajan and Irakli Gozalishvili and LeXofLeviafan and Chris McCormick.

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A little Clojure-like LISP in JavaScript

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wisp is developed on GitHub and has 983 stars
There are at least 30 wisp repos on GitHub
wisp is written in Markdown, JSON, Make, YAML, JavaScript
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 17 users using wisp in 23 repos on GitHub
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for wisp

Example from the web:

(alert "Hello world!")

Example from Linguist:

;; # wisp

; Wisp is homoiconic JS dialect with a clojure syntax, s-expressions and
; macros. Wisp code compiles to a human readable javascript, which is one
; of they key differences from clojurescript.

;; ## wisp data structures

;; 1. nil - is just like js undefined with a differenc that it's
;;    not something can be defined. In fact it's just a shortcut for
;;    void(0) in JS.
nil ;; => void(0)

;; 2. Booleans - Wisp booleans true / false are JS booleans

true ;; => true

;; 3. Numbers - Wisp numbers are JS numbers
1  ;; => 1

;; 4. Strings - Wisp strings are JS Strings
"Hello world"
;;    Wisp strings can be multiline
"Hello,
My name is wisp!"

;; 5. Characters - Characters are sugar for JS single char strings
\a  ;; => "a"

;; 6. Keywords - Keywords are symbolic identifiers that evaluate to
;;               themselves.
:keyword  ;; => "keyword"
;;    Since in JS string constats fulfill this purpose of symbolic
;;    identifiers, keywords compile to equivalent JS strings.
(window.addEventListener :load handler false)
;;    Keywords can be invoked as functions, that desugars to plain
;;    associated value access in JS
(:bar foo) ;; => foo["bar"]


;; 7. Vectors - Wisp vectors are JS arrays.
[ 1 2 3 4 ]
;;    Note: Commas are white space & can be used if desired
[ 1, 2, 3, 4]


;; 8. Maps - Maps are hash maps, plain JS objects. Note that unlike
;;    in clojure keys can not be of arbitary types.
{ "foo" bar :beep-bop "bop" 1 2 }
;;    Commas are optional but can come handy for separating key value
;;    pairs.
{ a 1, b 2 }
;; In a future JSONs syntax may be made compatible with map syntax.


;; 9. Lists - You can't have a lisp without lists! Wisp has lists too.
;;    Wisp is homoiconic and it's code is made up of lists representing
;;    expressions. The first item in the expression is a function, being
;;    invoked with rest items as arguments.
(foo bar baz) ; => foo(bar, baz);

;; # Conventions
;; Wisp puts a lot of effort in making naming conventions tra

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Booleans	✓		true false
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Comments	✓	; A comment
Line Comments	✓	; A comment	;
Semantic Indentation	✓