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medley
The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Wiki, Issues are here. Other repositories include maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources) (by Interlisp)
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SLT
SLT is an IDE Plugin for Itellij/Jetbrains IDE lineup implementing support for Common Lisp via Slime/Swank and supported lisp interpret.
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If someone invents another browser, Nyxt will be ready to wrap it with Common Lisp: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt
Project mention: Jak & Daxter PC fanmade port runs like a dream (and also natively) on the Deck | /r/SteamDeck | 2023-06-29Github page
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
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
Project mention: I programmed a SLY completion backend, it works, but I could use some help fine tuning it. | /r/Common_Lisp | 2023-10-16please someone create a pull request (or issue) on SLY github, to make it available to other SLY users. (I do not wish to have a github account and don't care about the copyright)
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: OpenSCAD Survey - what programming language do you want to be added to app? | /r/openscad | 2023-12-06
Project mention: Understanding continuity across an entire interval (epsilon-delta) | /r/MathHelp | 2023-06-07Copy and paste this comment into mathb.in to render the LaTeX.
Project mention: Emacs4CL: A DIY kit to quickly set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-27
Project mention: C Is Not a Low-level Language – Your computer is not a fast PDP-11 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-16Well Forth is possibly the most minimal VM over a platform, as evidenced by openfirmware.
It does have problems scaling though, in that if you've seen one Forth, you've seen one Forth ie. The variations required to fit a platform make them semi-incompatible.
That's not to say that a more lispy Forth wouldn't be useful though, in that a concatenative syntax allows us to pass custom datastructures around like APL, and CPS (delimited continuations with lexically scoped dynamic binding would come from the lisp side (see https://github.com/manuel/wat-js).
Memory management in Forth can handle multiple memory types eg. https://flashforth.com/ so adding something like ref counting (https://github.com/zigalenarcic/minilisp/blob/main/main.c) to handle the dynamic list side of things might mesh well.
In any case, if you're looking for a self hosting lisp that runs on bare metal, https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru has been out for a few years.
jzon https://github.com/Zulu-Inuoe/jzon/ is the newest and probably the most complete, the most robust and the most accurate. It explains everything in its readme. I have settled on Shasht so far.
Project mention: bike (.NET interop library for CL) release 0.13.0. Extensible printer system. SIGFPE problem. | /r/lisp | 2023-09-18
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:
Project mention: I’m going to create a toy project for playing with different UI libs | /r/Common_Lisp | 2023-07-04
Manual recursion often isn't needed. You can get basically all of what you want from Transducers: https://github.com/fosskers/cl-transducers
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Lisp projects in Common Lisp? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nyxt | 9,563 |
| 2 | jak-project | 2,679 |
| 3 | clasp | 2,524 |
| 4 | clog | 1,443 |
| 5 | sly | 1,223 |
| 6 | jscl | 874 |
| 7 | ccl | 824 |
| 8 | kons-9 | 550 |
| 9 | medley | 362 |
| 10 | mathb | 304 |
| 11 | eisl | 254 |
| 12 | lambdalisp | 219 |
| 13 | SLT | 186 |
| 14 | maru | 181 |
| 15 | om-sharp | 161 |
| 16 | croatoan | 146 |
| 17 | djula | 145 |
| 18 | jzon | 139 |
| 19 | bike | 135 |
| 20 | one-more-re-nightmare | 135 |
| 21 | clingon | 114 |
| 22 | calm | 100 |
| 23 | cl-transducers | 87 |
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