Janet syntax is lisp-like, and also has similarities with Clojure (one main difference from both is that Janet uses # for comments instead of ;).

Hi Anteru, thanks so much for your review work, and patience here. My free time as almost completely dried up in the last few weeks, and I'm looking up the git docs now on how to proceed (my git knowledge is currently very thin!).

Anteru, does your correction ([^\\"]) apply to the regexes for the double-quoted strings and for the backtick-quoted strings? Note that, unlike double-quoted strings, backtick-quoted strings may utilize multiple backticks, as in

  `some str`
 ``some str``
```some str```

Incidentally, both double-quoted and backtick-quoted strings can be multi-line.

I only applied it to double-quoted strings. Do backtick-quoted strings allow for escape characters inside? At some point it may be easier to mimic what the Python lexer does and have separate rules for handling the various escapes.

Also, no need to hurry, we just released 2.7 and 2.8 is not coming that soon :)

No, backtick-quoted strings do not allow for escape sequences.

But backtick quoted strings do allow for:

``this is `something` here``
```this is ``something`` here```

The language allows for even more backticks (as long as there's the same number of them starting as ending the string), but so far the most I've seen people use is

```three```

My advice would be to look at the Python lexer family and copy that, using three states -- for single, double, triple quoted backticks. Same as the string handling there -- that'll be much less hassle than any other approach IMHO.

Sorry I dropped the ball on this. Unable to make time to look more at this right now, and my git knowledge needs to be better so I can get this current before continuing. I'd like to return to it when I can, but if someone wants to pick it up and run with it that's fine with me.