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Top 23 Common Lisp common-lisp Projects

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  1. nyxt

    Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

    Project mention: Nyxt4 (a Lisp powered web browser) pre-release (Mac/Linux) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-22
  2. InfluxDB

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  3. pgloader

    Migrate to PostgreSQL in a single command!

    Project mention: Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL | dev.to | 2024-07-10

    Pg Loader is a tool that can be used to move your data to PostgreSQL, however, it's not perfect, but can work well in some cases. It's worth looking at to see if it's the direction you want to go.

  4. clasp

    clasp Common Lisp environment (by clasp-developers)

    Project mention: From C++ to Clojure: New Language Promises Best of Both | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-30

    I remember claps [1] (a Lisp with C++ interoperation), but it seems almost frozen (a quick glimpse). So I think this could follow the same path, yes I am a bit pessimistic, claps seems a very good idea but it did not pan out to expectation.

    https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp

  5. lem

    Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility

    Project mention: Lem – the editor/IDE well-tuned for Common Lisp | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-19
  6. slime

    The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs

  7. sbcl

    Mirror of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)'s official repository

    Project mention: SBCL "user-guided optimization" notice | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-27
  8. roswell

    intended to be a launcher for a major lisp environment that just works.

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. clog

    CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

    Project mention: Years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-22

    What do you expect from a web framework? That means different things to different people. I don't really like frameworks, so I used a web-server abstraction layer named "clack."

    Radiance[0] is a more traditional web-framework, with interfaces for backend-storage, web-servers, templating, authentication &c.

    Hunchentoot gives you basic route definitions out-of-the-box (bring your own database), and for something more full-featured there is CLOG[1] and Reblocks[2]

    0: https://shirakumo.github.io/radiance

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

    2: https://40ants.com/reblocks/

  11. sketch

    A Common Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design, game prototyping, game making, computer graphics, exploration of human-computer interaction, and more. (by vydd)

    Project mention: Ask HN: Resources for Learning Graphics Programming | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-24

    From a common lisp learner's perspective, I've had

    https://github.com/vydd/sketch for 2d

  12. woo

    A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev

  13. sly

    Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE (by joaotavora)

    Project mention: The Symbolics Genera Programming Environment (1987) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-21

    [1] https://github.com/joaotavora/sly

  14. coalton

    Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.

    Project mention: Coalton | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-22
  15. trial

    A modular Common Lisp game engine

    Project mention: Kandria, a post-apocalyptic action RPG in Common Lisp | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-03

    Here is a link to the Trial game engine, also a creation of the same author: https://github.com/Shirakumo/trial

  16. jscl

    A Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler bootstrapped from Common Lisp

  17. ccl

    Clozure Common Lisp

    Project mention: Graphics Livecoding in Common Lisp | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-23

    Unfortunately CCL is Intel only on macOS. (macOS is not on the the main page https://ccl.clozure.com)

    Otherwise this is the one I would use as it has good Cocoa interoperability.

  18. caveman

    Lightweight web application framework for Common Lisp.

    Project mention: A simple Common Lisp web app | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-04

    https://github.com/fukamachi/caveman/ (I like Mito and Djula, I'd go with Hunchentoot rather than Clack which is famously undocumented)

  19. hunchentoot

    Web server written in Common Lisp

    Project mention: Years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-22
  20. kons-9

    Common Lisp 3D Graphics Project

    Project mention: Ask HN: Resources for Learning Graphics Programming | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-24

    https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9 for 3d

    on my to-play-with list for a little moment now, waiting for a chance.

  21. qlot

    A project-local library installer for Common Lisp

    Project mention: Ask HN: Whats the difference between qlot vs. ocicl? (SBCL package managers) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-22

    Maybe we can share our experience here?

    Question derived from thread[3] where this discussion started.

    [1] https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot

  22. quilc

    The optimizing Quil compiler.

    Project mention: Douglas Hofstadter on Lisp (1983) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-16

    I think personally that Coalton and the stuff its built on is crazy cool. Coalton is a little library you add to your Lisp, but, to quote the third link here: "In terms of its type system, Coalton’s closest cousin is Haskell." So Lisp's dynamism with all sorts of advanced typing.

    QVM, a Quantum Virtual Machine https://github.com/quil-lang/qvm

    Quilc, an "advanced optimizing compiler" for Quil https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc

    Coalton, "a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp." https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/

  23. qvm

    The high-performance and featureful Quil simulator.

    Project mention: Douglas Hofstadter on Lisp (1983) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-16

    I think personally that Coalton and the stuff its built on is crazy cool. Coalton is a little library you add to your Lisp, but, to quote the third link here: "In terms of its type system, Coalton’s closest cousin is Haskell." So Lisp's dynamism with all sorts of advanced typing.

    QVM, a Quantum Virtual Machine https://github.com/quil-lang/qvm

    Quilc, an "advanced optimizing compiler" for Quil https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc

    Coalton, "a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp." https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/

  24. medley

    The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Wiki, Issues are here. Other repositories include maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources) (by Interlisp)

  25. CIEL

    CIEL Is an Extended Lisp. Scripting with batteries included.

    Project mention: I Chose Common Lisp | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-11

    Not standard, but hopefully worth mentioning: the thing that's clicked best for me is the docs on https://ciel-lang.org/ ("batteries included" Common Lisp image). The examples for how to use it's curated libraries matches how I try to integrate a new language into my toolbox.

    It hit the front page a while ago too:

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source common-lisp projects in Common Lisp? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 nyxt 10,388
2 pgloader 5,785
3 clasp 2,649
4 lem 2,621
5 slime 1,960
6 sbcl 1,935
7 roswell 1,829
8 clog 1,622
9 sketch 1,454
10 woo 1,324
11 sly 1,316
12 coalton 1,313
13 trial 1,102
14 jscl 905
15 ccl 889
16 caveman 790
17 hunchentoot 711
18 kons-9 602
19 qlot 504
20 quilc 470
21 qvm 426
22 medley 403
23 CIEL 383

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