parens-8

note: an updated version of parens-8 can be found on github, with many improvements at every level.

a tiny (388 tokens) lisp interpreter for pico-8, designed for extending your code past the Lua token limit with minimal tooling and maximal interoperability with Lua.

inspired by the technical prowess that is picoscript, I've been meaning to make my own extension language for a while, but I didn't want to create an entire build system for that kind of thing.

I ended up making it on a whim one night after seeing yet another janky custom DSL to save a few tokens. no more! need more tokens? add parens-8, cram your code into the ROM of another cart, parse it into RAM, send.