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vindarel

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Pythonista turned lisper.

https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/pythonvslisp/

I run CL apps in production.

CL, batteries included, fast scripting: http://ciel-lang.org/

I create a Common Lisp course in videos. It's a progressive and structured course, where everything that was hard for me (especially hard to find) is made easy for you. Check it out! https://www.udemy.com/course/common-lisp-programming/?referralCode=2F3D698BBC4326F94358

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SBCL v2.2.6 released with official SIMD module (and related optimizations)

sbcl.org

3 pointsby vindarel4 jaar geleden0 comments

Next browser 1.3.3 – multiple selection, bookmarks queries, Git clone and more

next.atlas.engineer

4 pointsby vindarel7 jaar geleden0 comments

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7 dagen geledendiscuss

> Common Lisp lacks some conveniences that have become common in newer languages, such as concise literals for a wider variety of data structures, persistent immutable collections, lazy sequences and built-in general-purpose pattern matching.

we can explore libraries on https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl/

concise literals: serapeum's dict or other libraries bring you { } for hash tables and the like.

persistent collections: FSet (and more)

lazy sequences: series, gtwiwtg (generators) (and more)

pattern-matching: Trivia

many libraries are shipped in CIEL: https://ciel-lang.org/ (shameless plug)

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> It’s currently used in …

more example companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/

also: https://lisp-screenshots.org/

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> at the cost of slightly slower startup times

that means ±30ms, not the Java-esque slow startup time ;)

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editors: don't miss https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... and the new Mine, OLIVE for VSCode, ICL repl (terminal and browser).

7 dagen geledendiscuss

So let's try: SBCL with

* [clj-coll](https://github.com/dtenny/clj-coll) - Clojure collection and sequence APIs in Common Lisp, with optional Clojure collection syntax.

  * provides immutable Cons, Queue, PersistentList, capabilities as well as Vector, Set, and Map analogues built on FSet (but accessed entirely via Clojure APIs).

  * optional read syntax so you can type `{:a 1 :b 2}`, `#{1 2 3}`, and `[1 2 3]`.

* [clj-con](https://github.com/dtenny/clj-con) - Clojure-style concurrency operations in Common Lisp.

* [clj-re](https://github.com/dtenny/clj-re/) - Clojure-style regular expression functions.

* [clj-arrows](https://github.com/dtenny/clj-arrows) - Clojure-compatible threading/transformation/arrow macros for Common Lisp.

editor: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/

type system: Coalton

7 dagen geledendiscuss

What about this one? https://github.com/dotcl/dotcl

> Common Lisp implementation on .NET. Lisp source is compiled to CIL (Common Intermediate Language) and runs on the .NET JIT — so the same Lisp image runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux across x86-64 and ARM64 without per-platform porting work.

7 dagen geledendiscuss

Reminds me of https://scorecloud.com/ "ScoreCloud Songwriter takes recordings of voice and instruments and turns it into Lead Sheets, with melody, lyrics and chords." except there is no live demo (but a free download for W$ and Mac, and an iPhone app) (didn't try)

(It's built in Common Lisp (LispWorks))

14 dagen geledendiscuss

Start here with Common Lisp 8-) https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/getting-started.h... To learn the language, look at the good books out there (Touretzky's etc).

ps: you don't need to learn Emacs. A terminal even is enough. See the Cookbook/ Editors section.

15 dagen geledendiscuss

Don't miss out, we had new excellent editors and tools being released in the last months:

Mine: a complete, single-download application that comes with everything needed to experience the interactive and incremental development programming workflow, including hot-reloading and on-the-fly debugging. For CL and Coalton.

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/

OLIVE: a new hand-made plugin for VSCode.

ICL: a new REPL for the terminal and the browser with advanced features.

as a bonus: a JupyterLite kernel based on JSCL that runs 100% in the browser.

find them all: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...

15 dagen geledendiscuss

the python debugger is cool but is an inferior experience. It isn't only about a REPL, but about the editing experience, and about the language being thought from the ground up for long-living programs. See: https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/

15 dagen geledendiscuss

Flight search (Google's ITA Software), underground planning (SISCOG), CAD software (PTC Creo et all), the Gollum face (Mirai), automation of document extraction, renewable energies resource planning (3E), project management (planisware),

games (Kandria),

Maxima,

a faster pgloader (https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...),

hackernews (was rewritten to SBCL: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-...), first reddit…

https://lisp-screenshots.org/

https://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/

also Emacs (for another dialect).

vorige maanddiscuss

also in the interop topic:

Common Lisp for Python: https://github.com/marcoheisig/cl4py

call Python from CL: https://github.com/digikar99/py4cl2-cffi

vorige maanddiscuss

and the newer Moonli for CL: https://moonli-lang.github.io/ (:

2 maanden geledendiscuss

I like History but I'll comment about Lisp in web apps today, if I may. We have a choice of web servers and web libraries (https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl/#web-development), and we live in happy times where HTMX or Datastar are great fit for Lisp -as with any stack. See these Datastar examples built in CL: https://github.com/fsmunoz/datastar-cl I use and like the Mito ORM too, which comes with automatic migrations and, since last year, a composable query engine (SxQL).

Here you will find some screenshots of some of today's web applications built in CL: http://lisp-screenshots.org/ and here an opinionated tutorial: https://web-apps-in-lisp.github.io/ One example: ScreenShotBot https://screenshotbot.io/ a successful open-source product and company. It now replaced Facebook's automatic screenshot testing tool (source: their blog). So, web apps in Lisp are possible -with a right amount of learning time and elbow grease.

The incremental development and interactive top-level are still precious and unmatched.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

The trap is using quote, with the list operator there are no issues:

    (defparameter *a* (list 1 2 3))

and of course, mutating top-level variables is bad style.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Notes on CL:

- why nothing on the "compiler" line? Everytime you load a snippet or a file with SBCL, it compiles it (to machine code). There's also compile-file.

- interpreter: likewise, all code is compiled by default with SBCL, not interpreted, even in the REPL. To use the interpreter, we must do this: https://github.com/lisp-tips/lisp-tips/issues/52

- command line program: the racket cell shows the use of -e (eval), the same can be done with any CL implementation.

- since the string split line introduces cl-ppcre, one could mention cl-str :D (plug) (much terser join, trim, concat etc)

- ah ok, for dates and times, flattening a list, hash-table literals… we need more libraries.

- more files operations: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/files.html

- emacs buffers: now compare with Lem buffers 8-)

- posix-getenv: I'd rather use uiop:getenv (comes in implementations).

- uiop:*command-line-arguments*

- exit: uiop:quit

- uiop:run-program (sync) / launch-program (async)

- java interop: with LispWorks or ABCL (or other libraries)

my 2c

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Thanks for this. Saved: https://gist.github.com/vindarel/3484a4bcc944a5be143e74bfae1...

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Someone threw out a Zed LSP for Common Lisp with LLMs help: https://github.com/etyurkin/zed-cl It requires heavy compilation of the wasm toolchain so I finally didn't try it. It seems it doesn't have a lisp debugger.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

its Common Lisp cousin: https://github.com/fosskers/transducers/

4 maanden geledendiscuss

more importantly, as you precise below, you edited (and somewhat corrected) the article after feedback from /r/lisp. So it isn't only AI output.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

It switched from Racket in late 2024. Context and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006 (9 months ago, 435 comments)

4 maanden geledendiscuss

To be clear, we can talk in present tense: https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/doc/internals-notes...

discussion (2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052564

4 maanden geledendiscuss

Previously:

SBCL (16 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140657 (107 comments)

Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41530783 (81 comments)

An exploration of SBCL internals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115083 (106 comments)

Arena Allocation in SBCL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052564 (32 comments)

SBCL (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544573 (167 comments)

Parallel garbage collection for SBCL [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296153 (45 comments)

SBCL 2.3.5 released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36107154 (31 comments)

Using SBCL Common Lisp as a Dynamic Library (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054796 (67 comments)

etc