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  • april

    The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp.

    • I'm also very curious for hear from expert lispers. I've tried to find the sweat spot where lisp would fit better than what I already know: shell for glue and file ops, R for data munging and vis, python to not reinvent things, perl/core-utils for one liners. But before I can find the niche, I get turned off by the amount of ceremony -- or maybe just how different the state and edit/evaluate loop is.

    I'm holding onto some things that make common lisp look exciting and useful (static typing[0], APL DSL[1], speed [2,3,4]) and really want to get familiar with structural editing [5]

    [0] https://github.com/phantomics/april - APL dsl

  • coalton

    Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.

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  • woo

    A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev

  • symex.el

    An intuitive way to edit Lisp symbolic expressions ("symexes") structurally in Emacs

  • awesome-lisp-companies

    Awesome Lisp Companies

    • CL is used in a wild range of domains. Web apps to industrial-grade theorem provers to quantum compilers etc.

    Here's an overview for 2022: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-li...

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

    pgloader went from Python to CL: https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...

    my take on why lisp vs python: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/pythonvslisp/

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