lfe mit Homebrew, apk installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• lfe
• lfe-first-try
• lfe-test
• lfec
• lfedoc
• lfeexec
• lfescript

Projektgeschichte

The LFE project credits Robert Virding with releasing the first version in 2008, after early 2007 experiments with parsing and implementing a Lisp. Virding's stated goals were to explore a Lisp designed for BEAM, to compile through Core Erlang into the Erlang compiler backend, and to keep full interaction with Erlang/OTP.

The version history shows early 0.x releases evolving the language from basic shell/compiler support into a Lisp-2 design, macro system, Core Erlang generation, records, binary syntax, Query List Comprehensions, and match-specification features. The 1.0 and 2.x release lines later made LFE look more like a maintained language runtime package than a one-off experiment.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The LFE website describes production use beginning in 2015 and frames the language as part of the Erlang community's own Lisp ecosystem. Package-manager adoption is narrower than Erlang itself, but Homebrew and Alpine packaging make it easy for BEAM and Lisp-curious developers to install the language tools without building from a clone.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical package usage is interactive or developer-facing: install the package, run the `lfe` REPL, compile with `lfec`, generate docs with `lfedoc`, or run scripts with `lfescript`. The README emphasizes compatibility with normal Erlang code, so LFE modules can sit beside Erlang modules rather than requiring a separate runtime world.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

LFE is interesting to package nerds because it is both a language implementation and an Erlang ecosystem bridge: one formula brings in a Lisp REPL, compiler tooling, script runner, and documentation commands for BEAM. It also preserves the long tradition of alternate syntaxes targeting mature VMs.

Zeitleiste

• 2007: Robert Virding experimented with parsing and implementing a Lisp.
• 2008: The first LFE version was released.
• 2015: The project website describes stable production use beginning in this year.
• 2021: LFE 2.0 was published as a GitHub release.
• 2025: LFE 2.2.0 was published as a GitHub release.

Related projects

• LFE is directly related to Erlang, Core Erlang, OTP, BEAM, and other Lisp-family languages. In packaging terms it sits near Erlang language tools, alternative BEAM languages, and REPL-oriented development packages.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lfe
• https://github.com/lfe/lfe/releases
• https://lfe.io/about/
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lfe/lfe/develop/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lfe/lfe/develop/doc/src/version_history.md