cl-coroutine VS cl-async

Compare cl-coroutine vs cl-async and see what are their differences.

cl-coroutine

Cl-coroutine is a coroutine library for Common Lisp. It uses cl-cont continuations library in its implementation. (by takagi)

cl-async

Asynchronous IO library for Common Lisp. (by orthecreedence)
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cl-coroutine cl-async
1 2
60 264
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10.0 4.9
over 7 years ago 5 months ago
Common Lisp Common Lisp
- MIT License
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cl-coroutine

Posts with mentions or reviews of cl-coroutine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-09.

cl-async

Posts with mentions or reviews of cl-async. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-28.
  • Subprocesses in CL
    2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 28 Sep 2022
    You could take a look at https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/common-lisp-async-web-scraping/ and https://github.com/orthecreedence/cl-async
  • Asynchronous web programming in CL?
    5 projects | /r/lisp | 9 Oct 2021
    As for the library offering the async primitives, cl-async seems to be comparable with asyncio - however, it's based on libuv (a different event loop) and I'm not sure whether it's advisable or idiomatic to mix it with Woo.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cl-coroutine and cl-async you can also consider the following projects:

woo - A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev

wookie - Asynchronous HTTP server in common lisp

cl-tbnl-gserver-tmgr - Hunchentoot Gserver based taskmanager

bordeaux-threads