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Lisp projects on GitHub
Family of languages built around s expressions and macros.
As of , the most-starred Lisp projects on GitHub are spacemacs (24.5K stars), nyxt (11K stars) and clojure (11K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Lisp repositories with 58.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was nyxt, with +2 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17
+2nyxt
atlas-engineer/nyxt · ★ 11KNyxt [nýkst] is a keyboard-driven web browser designed for hackers — an independent, deeply customizable browser for people who'd rather type than click.
+1clojure
clojure/clojure · ★ 11KThis is the source repository of the Clojure programming language — a functional Lisp dialect that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, with the compiler and runtime themselves written in Java.
neomacs
eval-exec/neomacs · ★ 1.6KNEO Emacs is GNU Emacs rewritten in Rust with a modern GPU display engine: the ~300,000-line C core is replaced by memory-safe Rust, aiming for 100% Emacs compatibility and 10x performance.
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5 projects · by stars
- 24.5K
#1 · syl20bnr/spacemacsspacemacs
A community-driven Emacs distribution: a polished, batteries-included Emacs setup focused on ergonomics, mnemonics and consistency. It is still in beta and welcomes contributions.
- 11K
#2 · atlas-engineer/nyxtnyxt
Nyxt [nýkst] is a keyboard-driven web browser designed for hackers — an independent, deeply customizable browser for people who'd rather type than click.
- 11K
#3 · clojure/clojureclojure
This is the source repository of the Clojure programming language — a functional Lisp dialect that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, with the compiler and runtime themselves written in Java.
- 4

mal
10.7Kkanaka/mal · AssemblyMal (Make a Lisp) is a Clojure-inspired Lisp interpreter built as a teaching tool: you implement the same interpreter in 11 incremental steps, and the project provides 95+ reference implementations across 89 languages to compare against.
- 5
neomacs
1.6Keval-exec/neomacs · RustNEO Emacs is GNU Emacs rewritten in Rust with a modern GPU display engine: the ~300,000-line C core is replaced by memory-safe Rust, aiming for 100% Emacs compatibility and 10x performance.
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