# Install lisette with Homebrew, Nix, dnf, MacPorts

Language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go. Version 0.7.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-04.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:lisette
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install lisette
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install lis
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: math/lis/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#lisette
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/lisette/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install lis
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lis from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:lisette
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lisette>
- **Version:** 0.7.0
- **Source summary:** Language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
- **Homepage:** <https://lisette.run>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ivov/lisette>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://lisette.run/>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/ivov/lisette/archive/refs/tags/lisette-v0.7.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-04T18:12:58Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- lis (cli)
- lis (alias)

## Build dependencies

- rust

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.7.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-07-04
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/ivov/lisette
- Upstream latest detected: lisette-v0.7.0 (current)
## Project history and usage

Lisette is a small compiled programming language by Ivan Ovejero that uses Rust-like syntax while targeting Go as its runtime and output ecosystem. Its public materials emphasize algebraic data types, pattern matching, Hindley-Milner type inference, immutable-by-default values, Go interoperation, diagnostics, and editor tooling.

### Project history

The project was published as a Rust crate in December 2025 and developed rapidly through the first half of 2026. The repository and project site present Lisette as an experiment in bringing ML- and Rust-flavored safety features to Go-oriented programs without abandoning Go's deployment model.

The language's early design mixed familiar Rust surface syntax with Go-specific affordances such as imports from Go packages, Go-style interfaces, channels, goroutines, and readable generated Go. That combination makes it part compiler project, part language-design prototype, and part bridge into the Go ecosystem.

### Adoption history

Lisette's adoption evidence is early-stage and concentrated around source distribution, crates.io releases, the hosted playground, and package-manager entries. By June 2026, the repository showed dozens of tagged releases and Homebrew, Nix, Fedora, and MacPorts metadata had appeared in the package facts for the tool.

### How it is used

Users install the `lis` command and compile `.lis` programs to Go. The examples in the README and site focus on pattern matching, `Result` and `Option`-style error handling, typed channels, pipelines, and direct calls into Go packages.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, Lisette is interesting because it packages a young language toolchain as a Rust-distributed compiler whose output depends on Go. It sits in the niche where language runtimes, compiler front ends, editor tooling, and generated-code workflows all meet.

### Timeline

- 2025-12-28: Lisette 0.0.1 was published on crates.io.
- 2026-03-21: Lisette 0.1.0 was published on crates.io.
- 2026-06-28: Lisette 0.6.0 was published, matching the repository's June 28, 2026 release marker.

### Related projects

- Lisette is related to Rust through its syntax and safety vocabulary, to Go through its generated output and runtime interoperation, and to ML-family languages through Hindley-Milner type inference and algebraic data types.

### Sources

- <https://crates.io/crates/lisette>
- <https://github.com/ivov/lisette>
- <https://lisette.run/>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for lisette. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** lisette
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - lisette: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/lisette/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - lis: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: math/lis/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Nix - lis: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/lis/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - lis - 2.1.11-3.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lis from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | A library for solving linear equations and eigenvalue problems | http://www.ssisc.org/lis/index.en.html
- dnf - lis-bin - 2.1.11-3.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lis-bin from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | lis executables | http://www.ssisc.org/lis/index.en.html
- dnf - lis-devel - 2.1.11-3.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lis-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development headers and library for lis | http://www.ssisc.org/lis/index.en.html
- dnf - lis-doc - 2.1.11-3.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lis-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Developer documentation for lis | http://www.ssisc.org/lis/index.en.html


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/lisette.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/lisette.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
