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The Shen releases for Mac OS X seem to all (I tried 2.7 to 3.0) segfault on m1. That's not great.

Edit: seems the github stuff is ancient (before m1) and not maintained. Should be indicated in those repositories really. The way to get it to (very easily) work, is to install sbcl, download a kernel here[0] and compile it. Works fine.

[0] https://shenlanguage.org/download.html



There is kernel update even on Feb. Just not sure how to use it or install it. Is there a source something that is installable under sbcl. Can it do quick lisp? What is it?


Download the S38, install sbcl and do the load from README from the REPL. It’s very fast and then it works fine.


Yeah it took barely 2.5200843811035156e-4 secs to compile on M2 Mac.




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