Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers
Explore the Pixie programming language in this conference talk from Strange Loop. Discover how Pixie aims to fill a specific niche in the programming world, offering features like excellent C interoperability, immutable data structures, fast startup times, efficient execution performance, and asynchronous I/O by default. Learn about the RPython technology that enabled Pixie's rapid development and cross-platform support. Delve into topics such as performance optimization, polymorphic functions, tracing JIT, lightweight threads and processes, object systems, FFI (Foreign Function Interface), and comparisons with Python. Gain insights from Timothy Baldridge, a polyglot programmer and the creator of Pixie, as he demonstrates the language's capabilities through examples like Mandelbrot set generation and STL code implementation.