About

About Beerlang

Beerlang is an open-source LISP-family language implemented in C.

Design goals

• Clojure syntax — proven, minimal, great for macros
• Cache-efficient VM — stack-based bytecode designed to fit in L2/L3 cache
• Cooperative multitasking — lightweight tasks without preemption overhead
• Compile everything — no separate interpreter; REPL and files share the same path
• Distributed actors — beer.hive for Erlang-style multi-node computing

Source

The source is available on GitHub under the MIT license.

Name

The name is a nod to hops — the ingredient that gives beer its character — and to the beer.hive distributed actor system inspired by how a hive of bees coordinates work.