Originally I planned for this project to be an assembler, then I made the hex editor first because it was simpler. I got a gap buffer text editor working, and most of an x86 assembler then life got in the way. I had only officially released the hex editor.
A while later I read Paul Graham's essay on writing lisp in lisp (https://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html you have to download and read the postscript file) and I became interested in the idea of it. I realized it's the perfect thing to use if I want a high level language in bootstrap-os, it's much simpler than C (there's a 100 lines (!) of code in C implementation of lisp that helped me a lot https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp), and actually the lisp interpreter is even simpler than the x86 assembler.
So I ended up trying to implement lisp in x86 in one weekend and actually got pretty close to getting it done but ended up having to finish it up a little while later.
I never ended up actually releasing it yet because I hadn't gotten it to a very nice place with full error messages etc and it took a long time thinking about what is actually the most minimum set of things required in a lisp implementation. I read McCarthy's paper and thought about it a lot and ended up with what I have almost done now.
Today I'm working on putting together a full release with the lisp text editor and the hex editor integrated as one binary. I also decided to write a test suite since I didn't want to spend the time to test it and not write down the work.
So I've got a pretty good sized todo list but hopefully I can get a release done relatively soon!
Attached is a demonstration of defining numbers even though the interpreter doesn't support integers at all!
