baisilisp 0.5.2.dev0

BaisiLisp: a compatibility-focused Basilisp fork hosted on Python 3 with seamless Python interop.

🐍 BaisiLisp 🐍

A compatibility-focused Basilisp fork: a Clojure-compatible(-ish) Lisp dialect hosted on Python 3 with seamless Python interop. The installed Python and Lisp namespace remains basilisp for source compatibility.

Getting Started

BaisiLisp is developed on GitHub and hosted on PyPI. You can fetch BaisiLisp using pip (or any other Python dependency manager which can pull from PyPI):

pip install baisilisp

Once BaisiLisp is installed, you can enter into the REPL using:

basilisp repl

Documentation

BaisiLisp documentation is maintained in this repository. It can help guide your exploration at the REPL and beyond. Additionally, BaisiLisp features many of the same functions and idioms as Clojure, so you may find guides and documentation there helpful for getting started.

For those who prefer a video introduction, feel free to check out this talk hosted by the London Clojurians group about Basilisp.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. BaisiLisp retains the upstream Eclipse Public License 1.0 and attribution; please file fork-specific issues in this repository.

If you have a question, please use GitHub Discussions.

Release channels

Tagged releases are stable versions. Every successful commit to main is also published to PyPI as a development version; install that stream explicitly:

pip install --pre --upgrade baisilisp

The distribution is a drop-in replacement, so do not install it alongside the upstream basilisp distribution in the same environment.

License

Eclipse Public License 1.0