advent-of-code-2023 VS clog

another one: https://github.com/bo-tato/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/day5/day5.lisp and pure CL: https://github.com/galdor/advent-of-code-2023/blob/master/src/day-05.lisp

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

Reminds me of the approach of CLOG (Common Lisp Omnificent Gui[1]) and its ancestor GNOGA (The GNU Omnificent GUI for Ada[2]).

They also integrate basic components and even graphical UI editor (at least for CLOG), so you can essentially develop the whole thing from inside CL or Ada

[1] https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog

[2] https://github.com/alire-project/gnoga

For me David Botton [0] with his work including code, support and videos is doing very nice work in this direction.

I use SBCL for everything but work because I cannot get; we are getting there, but like you say, it’s such a nice experience working interactively building fast that it is magic and it’s painful returning to my daily work of Python and typescript/react. It feels like a waste of time/life, really.

[0] https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog

I was following along on the Windows page and didn't check back on the main README to see if any of the other instructions would help.

It the answer is "latter", then you could look at Common Lisp and Reblocks (https://40ants.com/reblocks/) or CLOG (https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog).