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Why Is Common Lisp Not the Most Popular Programming Language?
> Lack of access to the C libraries.
???
I recently started learning Common Lisp for fun (and fun it is!) and the ease of accessing C libraries was one of the things that surprised me in a positive way.
Using https://github.com/rpav/cl-autowrap one can simply write (c-include "file.h") and the API defined in "file.h" is accessible from Lisp. I can't think of a simpler way.
Even without cl-autowrap, FFI using https://cffi.common-lisp.dev/ seems simple enough.
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An Idea for Piggybacking Python (language) ecosystem
I think the closest is cl-autowrap. I can imagine a higher level wrapper around it by which it can translate the python header file into the CL counterpart, although I'm not sure how much work the translation might entail. Also, because python and lisp semantics can differ considerably, the generated code might be trying to do weird things - again an issue of translation.
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Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software
Common lisp has a "pretty OK" story for calling C code whenever some speed is needed [0,1]. In my opinion, they suffer from some of the documentation/quick start problems that common lisp has, but they're otherwise usable.
Some of Naughty Dog's late 90's/early 2000's games (Jak and Daxter, Jak II) were written in a lisp called GOAL, Game Oriented Assembly Lisp [2]
[0] https://github.com/rpav/cl-autowrap
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Common Lisp language extensions wish list?
The closest thing to what you request, that I'm aware of, is cl-autowrap (to use C code from Lisp) but it is not standard in any way. CFFI is the de facto standard for using C from Lisp across different implementations.
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I have bolted together ECL and the Irrlicht game library
:claw tracks back to 2017 as a fork of cl-autowrap with cl-autowrap/pull/83 feature.
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Common Lisp
If you're interested in FFI, then yeah CFFI is the standard. The other comments addressed speed, I also wanted to point out https://github.com/rpav/cl-autowrap which is built on top of CFFI and can help get a wrapper up and running faster. After using autowrap's c-include you can then use CFFI basically like normal or some useful autowrap/plus-c's helper functions -- e.g. in one project, I have an SDL_Event (https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Event) and to access event.key.keysym.scancode I have a helper function that's just (plus-c:c-ref event sdl2-ffi:sdl-event :key :keysym :scancode). Last year I wanted to try out using FMOD, and even though it's closed source and has a (to me) "interesting" API things worked easily: https://gist.github.com/Jach/dc2ec7b9402d0ec5836a935384cacdc... More work would be needed to make a nice wrapper, type things more fully, etc. but depending on the C library you might find someone's already done that (or made a start) and made it available from quicklisp.
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[Common Lisp] Best Libraries for Interfacing with UNIX-like Operating Systems?
In recent years there has also been cl-autowrap; caveats -
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Alternative to ECL?
There is the cl-autowrap that can generate lisp packages from C header filesc- I am unsure if it sticks to ANSI C or goes beyond. It inturn depends on c2ffi for the first time around.
awesome-lisp-companies
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Google Common Lisp Style Guide
Thanks to ITA Software (powering Kayak and Orbitz), Google dedicates resources to open-source Common Lisp development. More specifically, to SBCL:
> Doug Katzman talked about his work at Google getting SBCL to work with Unix better. For those of you who don’t know, he’s done a lot of work on SBCL over the past couple of years, not only adding a lot of new features to the GC and making it play better with applications which have alien parts to them, but also has done a tremendous amount of cleanup on the internals and has helped SBCL become even more Sanely Bootstrappable. That’s a topic for another time, and I hope Doug or Christophe will have the time to write up about the recent improvements to the process, since it really is quite interesting.
> Anyway, what Doug talked about was his work on making SBCL more amenable to external debugging tools, such as gdb and external profilers. It seems like they interface with aliens a lot from Lisp at Google, so it’s nice to have backtraces from alien tools understand Lisp. It turns out a lot of prerequisite work was needed to make SBCL play nice like this, including implementing a non-moving GC runtime, so that Lisp objects and especially Lisp code (which are normally dynamic space objects and move around just like everything else) can’t evade the aliens and will always have known locations.
https://mstmetent.blogspot.com/2020/01/sbcl20-in-vienna-last...
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/yes-google-develops-comm...
The ASDF system definition facility, at the heart of CL projects, also comes from Google developers.
While we're at it, some more companies using CL today: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
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Why Is Common Lisp Not the Most Popular Programming Language?
Everyone, if you don't have a clue on how's Common Lisp going these days, I suggest:
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-li... (https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/107oejk/these_years_i...)
A curated list of libraries: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl
Some companies, the ones we hear about: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
and oh, some more editors besides Emacs or Vim: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... (Atom/Pulsar support is good, VSCode support less so, Jetbrains one getting good, Lem is a modern Emacsy built in CL, Jupyter notebooks, cl-repl for a terminal REPL, etc)
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We need to talk about parentheses
Examples (for Common Lisp, so not citing Emacs): reddit v1, Google's ITA Software that powers airfare search engines (Kayak, Orbitz…), Postgres' pgloader (http://pgloader.io/), which was re-written from Python to Common Lisp, Opus Modus for music composition, the Maxima CAS, PTC 3D designer CAD software (used by big brands worldwide), Grammarly, Mirai, the 3D editor that designed Gollum's face, the ScoreCloud app that lets you whistle or play an instrument and get the music score,
but also the ACL2 theorem prover, used in the industry since the 90s, NASA's PVS provers and SPIKE scheduler used for Hubble and JWT, many companies in Quantum Computing, companies like SISCOG, who plans the transportation systems of european metropolis' underground since the 80s, Ravenpack who's into big-data analysis for financial services (they might be hiring), Keepit (https://www.keepit.com/), Pocket Change (Japan, https://www.pocket-change.jp/en/), the new Feetr in trading (https://feetr.io/, you can search HN), Airbus, Alstom, Planisware (https://planisware.com),
or also the open-source screenshotbot (https://screenshotbot.io), the Kandria game (https://kandria.com/),
and the companies in https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies and on LispWorks and Allegro's Success Stories.
https://github.com/tamurashingo/reddit1.0/
http://opusmodus.com/
https://www.ptc.com/en/products/cad/3d-design
http://www.izware.com/mirai
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scorecloud-express/id566535238
- A Tour of Lisps
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All of Mark Watson's Lisp Books
> but there doesn't seem to be one that really stands out as pragmatic, industrial
disagree ;) This industrial language is Common Lisp.
Some industrial uses:
- http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/index.html
- https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
- https://lisp-lang.org/success/
Example companies: Intel's programmable chips, the ACL2 theorem prover (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2015.039...), urban transportation planning systems (SISCOG), Quantum Computing (HRL Labs, Rigetti…), big data financial analysis (Ravenpack, they might be hiring), Google, Boeing, the NASA, etc.
ps: Python competing? strong disagree^^
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Why Common Lisp is used to implement commercial products at Secure Outcomes (2010)
and of course, a quite recent list of companies, in addition of LW's success stories page: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
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Steel Bank Common Lisp
Hey there, newer member of the first group here. Please see https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ to update your meta-comment. So, is CL used in the industry today, yes or no?
Personal note: I much prefer to maintain a long-living software in Common Lisp rather than in Python, thank you very much. May all the new programmers learn easily and all the teams have lots of ~~burden~~ work with Python, good for them.
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Racket: The Lisp for the Modern Day
Common Lisp has many industrial uses though.
(https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
https://lisp-lang.org/success/
http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/index.html
such as
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/ (theorem prover used by big corp©)
https://allegrograph.com/press_room/barefoot-networks-uses-f... (Intel programmable chip)
quantum compilers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32741928
etc, etc, etc)
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Why Lisp Syntax Works
A few more that we know of, using CL today: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
Others: https://lisp-lang.org/success/
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How to Understand and Use Common Lisp
yes
https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies
http://lisp-lang.org/success/
industrial theorem prover, design of Intel chips, quantum compilers...
and little me, being more productive and having more fun than with python to deploy boring tools (read a DB, format the data, send to FTP servers, show a web interface...).
What are some alternatives?
c2ffi - Clang-based FFI wrapper generator
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
cffi - The Common Foreign Function Interface
portacle - A portable common lisp development environment
chibi-scheme - Official chibi-scheme repository
julia - The Julia Programming Language
cl-rashell - Resilient replicant Shell Programming Library for Common Lisp
coalton - Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.
mal - mal - Make a Lisp
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
claw - Common Lisp autowrapping facility for C and C++ libraries
kandria - A post-apocalyptic actionRPG. Now on Steam!