roswell VS ScriptL

BTW, Roswell makes it easier to run scripts: https://github.com/roswell/roswell/wiki/Roswell-as-a-Scripti...

It is also a tool to install various CL implementations, and to install software.

It doesn't come with a choice of built-in libraries.

The Github wiki: https://github.com/roswell/roswell/wiki

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You could also be a roswell user, in which case your project might have a roswell directory. Again, you can look at the qlot project for reference.

Clack is a web application environment for Common Lisp inspired by Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack. Clack provides a script to start a web server. It's useful when you deploy to production environment. You need to install Roswell before as Clack depends on it.

Common Lisp itself has Roswell, which I am disappointed to see is not even mentioned in the article.

https://github.com/roswell/roswell

w.r.t to image size, ScriptL takes care of that since everything is in the same image. You could also use something like buildapp or cl-launch to make a multi-call binary that you compile your scripts into. I think I recall roswell allowing multiple entry points too, but I never could get it to work. Possibly PEBKAC on my end.

ScriptL - Shell scripting made Lisp-like! Or, live-coding remote function calls for the shell. Write a command in the REPL, and run it instantly in the shell. [LLGPL][8]. similar and maybe simpler: lserver

Did you try https://github.com/rpav/ScriptL?

One option is to use ScriptL. Then you have a server running that executes your scripts, and you get some interactivity if desired. Aside from that, the time it takes (on my machine) for the stumpwm executable to start, realize there is another window manager running, and shutdown is all of about 36 milliseconds, so how convenient bringing up a whole image is may vary with your hardware.