Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container

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Docker Lisp

A Docker image is a piece of executable code that produces some output given some input.

Requirements

• Docker

Setup

1. Build the base images and built‑ins:

   ./scripts/build-base
   ./scripts/build-builtins

2. Run the tests (be patient):

   ./scripts/run-tests

Usage

Evaluate an expression

./scripts/run eval "(cons 1 2)"

Trace evaluation

./scripts/run --trace eval "(car (cdr (cons 1 (cons 2 (list)))))"

You can also monitor the evaluation with docker stats and docker events.

Write and run a program

Create a Dockerfile that starts from docker-lisp/eval and supplies the program as the command, e.g.:

FROM docker-lisp/eval
CMD ["(define fact (lambda (n) (if (number-equals n 0) 1 (multiply n (fact (subtract n 1))))))", "(fact 3)"]

Build the program:

./scripts/build  [name]

If name is omitted, the filename is used.

Run the built program:

./scripts/run 

Scripts