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murarth/ketos

Lisp dialect scripting and extension language for Rust programs
Source code at GitHub https://github.com/murarth/ketos
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Ketos

Section titled “Ketos”

Ketos is a Lisp dialect functional programming language.

The primary goal of Ketos is to serve as a scripting and extension language for programs written in the Rust programming language.

Ketos is compiled to bytecode and interpreted by pure Rust code.

API Documentation

ketos_derive Documentation

[Language Documentation]!(docs/README.md)

Building the library

Section titled “Building the library”

To build Ketos into your Rust project, add the following to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
ketos = "0.11"

And add the following to your crate root:

extern crate ketos;

Building the REPL

Section titled “Building the REPL”

Build and run tests:

cargo test

Build optimized executable:

cargo build --release

Usage

Section titled “Usage”

ketos can be run as an interpreter to execute Ketos code files (.ket) or run as an interactive read-eval-print loop.

License

Section titled “License”

Ketos is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.