Beerlang

A Clojure-flavoured LISP with cooperative multitasking

Beerlang is a LISP-family language that combines Clojure's elegant syntax with a cache-efficient stack VM, cooperative multitasking, and a distributed actor system.

(defn hello [name]
  (println (str "Hello, " name "!")))

(hello "world")

Clojure syntax — S-expressions, keywords, vectors, maps, destructuring
Compile everything — REPL expressions compile to bytecode, same path as files
Cooperative tasks — spawn, await, channels for lightweight concurrency
Distributed actors — beer.hive brings Erlang-style message passing over TCP
No JVM — small native binary, fast startup

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