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- Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp (2021)
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Getting started with lisp
Right now, the one that is most attractive is Janet, with its wonderful shell programming integration and built-in http request. Those are both things I'm working a lot with.
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Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
I use Janet most often as a glue for shell utilities using the sh package (https://github.com/andrewchambers/janet-sh). It's a great tool for building small containerized jobs. I think it has a ton of potential as the ecosystem grows and matures.
Some rough spots:
- No canonical http client. There are a few attempts at wrapping libcurl but nothing complete and well documented yet. However, the creator of Joy framework for Janet does have an http client library.
- The main http server circlet is MIT licensed, but it is built on top of Mongoose, which is GPL/paid commercial. Something to be aware of if you want to distribute binaries made with this library.
- I have never been successful getting any of the UI or drawing libraries to work.
- Naming of packages is a bit confusing even if you have watched the Good Place and are aware of all of the inside jokes.
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Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp
The arguments I have seen are based on Janet using arrays/tuples rather than cons cells. Here is the author addressing this on reddit a while back. https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aqwedz/janet_i...
The debate continues in the thread. Either way, I think Janet is very useful for situations where you want something lisp like and also want/need small executables. I've experimented with it quite a bit and have found it really useful for putting together cli apps. The sh package is really useful for gluing together other shell programs. https://github.com/andrewchambers/janet-sh
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What are some alternatives?
roswell - intended to be a launcher for a major lisp environment that just works.
joy - A full stack web framework written in janet
janetdocs - A community documentation site for the janet programming language
freja - Self-modifiable editor for coding graphical things
termp - Trivial utility: are we in a terminal window or in a dumb one? (like Emacs' Slime)
net_skeleton - Async non-blocking multi-protocol networking library for C/C++
hofmod-cli - Hofstadter generator for Golang CLIs
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
Mongoose - MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.