Thank you for the introduction Rahul!
We will be posting to YouTube
bi-weekly: A new talk on the second Tuesday of the month, and a
previous talk on the second Tuesday after.
If anybody from your group would like
to give a past talk that the NYC Lisp community has missed, I'd be
happy to host it.
Arthur
On 10/12/20 12:50 PM, Rahul Jain wrote:
(Adding Arthur Smyles to the thread since he is the
current organizer of LispNYC.)
For whatever it's worth, we are using Jitsi for LispNYC,
both presentations and social hang-outs. The presentations are
also being simulcast to YouTube. (If you'd like to drop by our
talk tomorrow, the details are at
https://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/270506803/)
It might also be worth considering combining the groups
(or separating on a different axis other than geographical
while we are all interacting virtually). Might also be
worth having an ongoing US-East virtual Lisp group that
meets every couple months post-pandemic.
At
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:04:37 -0600, Jonathan Godbout said:
> Are people interested in having a meeting?
Yes, definitely!
> Can anyone give a talk?
I can, though it wouldn't strictly be about Lisp. My employer
(osohq.com)
has been developing a logic programming language (i.e., a
Prolog dialect)
focused on authorization problems, and I think both the
language and its
implementation might be of interest. We've written an
embeddable interpreter
in Rust that communicates via FFI to a host or application
language
such as (currently) Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, or Rust.
It has
some features inspired by Common Lisp (e.g., multiple
dispatch),
but mostly it's a logic language with unification &
backtracking.
Its distinguishing feature is its ability to write rules over
objects
and types from the host language; e.g., whatever models an
application
uses natively. We think this is useful in certain complex
authorization
contexts, and perhaps more broadly.
I would in particular love to get feedback from a Lisp crowd
on the
language design, syntax, etc. We tried to give it an updated
feel,
but still be recognizably Prolog, and just a little Lispy.
Lisp
folks tend to have pretty high standards and strong opinions
on
all kinds of languages, so it'd be great to hear what people
think.
> I'd be willing to give a lightning talk about
cl-protobufs.
+1
> We can use Zoom instead of hangouts...
+1 from me on reliability and ease of use, though I totally
understand
issues people may have with it. Jitsi's probably fine, though
I have
not ever used it.
-- Alex