Janet
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 30, 2026first mention
Oct 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“The beautiful thing about Janet is how lightweight and portable it is, no JVM.”
switched from Pythonon “Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ …”
“I have some gentler introductory stuff like: https://janetdocs.org/tutorials”
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“Janet (https://github.com/janet-lang/janet) seems to be aimed at this.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
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“The beautiful thing about Janet is how lightweight and portable it is, no JVM.”
“I have some gentler introductory stuff like: https://janetdocs.org/tutorials”
“Janet (https://github.com/janet-lang/janet) seems to be aimed at this.”
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