Portable Parens: Graphical Lisp programs for mobile devices
summary
Shows four concrete ways to build touch-friendly mobile GUI apps using Lisp dialects (Clojure, Scheme, Fennel): embedding Lisp interpreters, transpiling Lisp to target languages, using FFI to call native UI toolkits, and splitting functionality into networked microservices. Provides open-source examples for each method, compares them on reliability, performance and supply-chain sustainability, and demonstrates a GTK4 declarative GUI proof-of-concept running on a PinePhone with PostmarketOS.
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