Pile is a Lisp running the JVM. It will feel familiar to users of Clojure as it has much of the same syntax and similar concepts, like persistent collections with literal syntax and namespaces, however no code was copied.
Expected Lisp features like read/eval, macros, first-class functions and a runtime compiler have been implemented. Java interop exists including varargs support, first-class Java functions, functional interface integration and streams. Runtime polymorphism is accomplished by multimethods and generic functions (type-based multiple dispatch). I targeted the modern JVM to take advantage of features like virtual threads, invokedynamic, constantdynamic, and records to name a few.
As I am still writing and testing the language there will be bugs, and the current implementation should only be used for evaluation. I am looking for feedback on the implementation and desired features people may have.
Thanks!