# jjba23/sift

> A dialect-aware formatter, linter and language server for Scheme, Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp with byte-exact comment preservation and idempotent formatting.

- Magnitude: 3.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 73 total · +1 star measured 2026-11-14, 00:03–11:14 UTC, ≈ 10 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Scheme · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-31 · Last push: 2026-11-14
- GitHub: https://github.com/jjba23/sift · Homepage: https://jointhefreeworld.org/sift/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/jjba23/sift

## Useful for

- Format a Scheme or Emacs Lisp file without losing comments or blank lines
- Attach sift lsp to Emacs via Eglot or Neovim for on-the-fly linting
- Run sift ci in a pipeline to check formatting and lint rules

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:03–11:14: 72 → 73 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +10 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- The repository is 14 days old and already has 73 stars.
- Hacker News: “Sift: LSP, Lint, Format Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp” — 83 points, 2 days ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2
- Issues and pull requests: 11
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 12 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.31.0 (2026-11-14)

## Stars per day, last 15 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-31 … 2026-11-14: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 38, 31, 1

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-13 5.1, 11-14 4.4

## Hacker News

- Sift: LSP, Lint, Format Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp — 83 points, 14 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50460263

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-14 11:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.