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It's a great article. Since 2018 though, we have more tools and resources so we can enhance it. (I copy/edit a comment of mine from last thread)
## Pick and Editor
The article is right that you can start with anything. Just `load` your .lisp file in the REPL. But even in Vim, Sublime Text, Atom/Pulsar, VSCode, the Jetbrains suite or Jupyter notebooks, you can get pretty good to very good support. See https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...
> if anyone is interested in making a Common Lisp LSP language server, I think it would be a hugely useful contribution to the community.
Here's a new project used for VSCode: https://github.com/nobody-famous/alive-lsp There's also https://github.com/cxxxr/cl-lsp
## Libraries
He doesn't mention this list, what a shame: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl => the CL ecosystem is probably bigger than you thought. Sincerely, only recently, great packages appeared: CLOG, sento (actors concurrency), 40ants-doc, official CL support on OVH through Platform.sh, great editor add-ons (Slite test runner, Slime-star modules…), Coalton 1.0 (Haskell-like ML on top of CL), April v1.0 (APL in CL), a Qt 5 "library" (still hard to install), many more… (Clingon CLI args parser, Lish, a Lisp Shell in the making, the Consfigurator deployment service, generic-cl)…
His list is OK, I'd pick another HTTP client (Dexador instead of Drakma) and another JSON library (jzon or shasht), new ones since 2018 too, but that's a detail.
BTW, see also a list of companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ (nothing official, we add when we find one)
## Other resources
The Cookbook (to which I contribute) is a useful reference to see code and get things done, quickly. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/
While I'm at it, my last shameless plug: after my tutorials written for the Cookbook and my blog, I wanted to do more. Explain, structure, demo real-world Common Lisp. I'm creating this course (there are some free videos): https://www.udemy.com/course/common-lisp-programming/?coupon... You'll learn CL efficiently and support an active Lisper.
## Web Development
See the Cookbook, and the awesome list. We have many libraries, you still have to code for things taken for granted in other big frameworks. I have some articles on my blog. I have a working Django-like DB admin dashboard, I have to finish the remaining 20%…
We have new very cool kids in town, especially CLOG, that is like a GUI for the browser. Check it out: https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog
## Game Development
See again the awesome-cl list. And the Kandria game, published on Steam, all done in CL: https://kandria.com/
## Unit Testing
We have even more test frameworks since 2018! And some are actually good O_o
## Projects
To create a full-featured CL project in one command, look no further, here's my (shameless plug) project skeleton: https://github.com/vindarel/cl-cookieproject you'll find the equivalent for a web project, lighter alternatives in the README, and a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFc513MJjos&feature=youtu.be
## Community
We are also on Discord: https://discord.gg/hhk46CE and on Libera Chat.
## Implementations
CLASP (CL for C++ on LLVM) reached its v1.0, congrats. https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp/releases/tag/1.0.0 More are in the making…
We got dynamic library delivery tool for SBCL (sbcl-librarian). There's a rumor from the European Lisp Symposium that a feature beginning in "co" and lasting in "routine" is coming to SBCL.
Allegro CL (proprietary) got a new version running in the browser…
Crazy Lisp world <3
The real reason to learn SBCL, is because that is an existence proof that garbage-collected multi-paradigm (procedural, functional, object-oriented) dynamic languages don't have to suck performance wise (speed and memory usage). I'm going to go off the rails and say that 'defmacro' isn't the reason one should use a lisp. ~90% of 'defmacro' instances are really just to prevent evaluating expressions, which could also have been done with a lighter syntax (e.g. reader macro) for lambda. Why didn't lisp catch on? Some 30-40% of people really hate parenthesis with a passion. There is no accounting for taste I guess. Lisp advocates also spent too many decades comparing lisp to C (instead of Python or Haskell or Java). And it seems like there was at one time a faction that looked down on free-software/GPL for a while, so there wasn't as much activity that people (especially college students) could see and engage with. The standard library is sparse and could use a CLOSified refresh, but everyone disagrees on how that should look. Too many lofty promises of 10x or greater productivity gains, and not enough wins showing it. Who knows, I haven't looked as common lisp in a while, maybe there are now vectorized/parallel array libraries targeting GPU's now that everyone uses, because things "just work" out of the box. Or a polished off McClim, or other lispy gui, instead of wrapping Tk. That combined with the usual network effects.
https://www.sbcl.org/
JSCL - A CL-to-JS compiler designed to be self-hosting from day one. Lacks CLOS, format and loop.
There's plenty of history of s-expression formats for documentation. One example is: https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/tree/master/doc/manual
But, also, there's plenty of uses of XML that are not "artcles and books". For example, Maven's pom.xml and log4j2.xml.
Project mention: Needle: A DFA Based Regex Library That Compiles to JVM ByteCode | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-08https://github.com/telekons/one-more-re-nightmare
And the pretty hard to find blog post about it:
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Compiler projects in Common Lisp? This list will help you:
Project | Stars | |
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1 | clasp | 2,524 |
2 | sbcl | 1,781 |
3 | jscl | 874 |
4 | ccl | 824 |
5 | quilc | 446 |
6 | CLPython | 365 |
7 | one-more-re-nightmare | 135 |
8 | Concrete-Syntax-Tree | 56 |
9 | Cleavir | 45 |
10 | Yotta | 16 |
11 | scheme-desugarer | 15 |
12 | compiler-web-service | 6 |
13 | zettapy | 4 |
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