What are lightweight lisp dialects that compile to readable js?

Question

What are lisp dialects that compile to short, readable and modifiable JS, using JS's own types?

Answer 1

Here's an extensive list of compilers for programming languages that compile to JavaScript, including several Lisp/Scheme dialects. Regarding the "short, readable and modifiable" part, that's a bit subjective ... you can test a couple of the compilers listed, and decide which one works best for you.

From the "Lisp, Scheme" section of the list [with minor formatting changes to the sub-section headers]:

Lisp, Scheme

Clojure-like

• ClojureScript Clojure to JS, the official version. Supports the majority of Clojure including persistent datastructures.
• ClojureJS Subset of Clojure to JS.
• Chlorinejs A fork of ClojureJS with a port of clojure.core library.
• wisp A homoiconic JavaScript dialect with Clojure syntax, S-expressions and macros. Aims to be rich subset of Clojure(Script) that seamlessly interops with both Clojure(Script) and JavaScript. ○
• Scriptjure Library for generating JavaScript from Clojure forms.
• ki Clojure-like syntax, mori's immutable data structures in a few sweet.js macros. Can be intermixed with JavaScript. ○

Scheme-like

• BiwaScheme Scheme(R6RS) in JavaScript
• Fargo Scheme in JavaScript
• Moby Scheme A Scheme running in JS.
• nconc Scheme interpreter in JavaScript with stack-friendly tail calls and full call/cc
• scheme2js Scheme to JavaScript.
• Spock A Scheme to JavaScript compiler that uses Henry Baker's Cheney-on-the-MTA compilation strategy
• Whalesong Racket to JS compiler

Other

• eslisp An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like hygienic macros that are just JS functions. Aims to be very close to JS, and highly experimental.
• EdgeLisp A Lisp in the tradition of Common Lisp
• Parenscript Subset of Common Lisp to JS.
• Ralph Lisp-1 dialect that compiles to JavaScript, inspired by Dylan
• Oppo A JavaScripter’s lisp. Inspired by JavaScript, Clojure and CoffeeScript. Compiler built using Jison.
• LispyScript A JavaScript with Lispy syntax and Macros. ○
• Outlet A simple Lisp that supports CPS and in-browser stepping debugging, and other things. In development.
• Hot Cocoa Lisp A Lisp-like language that compiles to JavaScript. ○
• Sibilant JavaScript with a lisp. ○
• jisp A JS-native and axiomatic Lisp that focuses on the core ideas of code-as-data, S-expressions, and macros, introducing as few new concepts as possible. ○

Answer 2

Parenscript is pretty lightweight and readable. And you use a superior interactive environment for it with slime-proxy.