Carp programming language
Shares rank 121 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Recommended as an interesting, attractive statically typed Lisp, with claims of C-like performance and SDL game demos. No criticism was recorded.
Recommended as an interesting, attractive statically typed Lisp, with claims of C-like performance and SDL game demos. No criticism was recorded.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
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Interesting, appealing Lisp design
“Another really interesting Lisp that I recently came across”
Comment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Clojure Hosted on Go” “I find ideas like Carp very attractive”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language”
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6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I find ideas like Carp very attractive”
“Carp Lisp is basically identical to C in performance”
“has been slowly inching forward and ticking those boxes”
“Another really interesting Lisp that I recently came across”
“has some cool demo's (like SDL for gamedev)”
“It's a statically typed lisp.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.