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  1. april

    The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp.

    I'm also very curious for hear from expert lispers. I've tried to find the sweat spot where lisp would fit better than what I already know: shell for glue and file ops, R for data munging and vis, python to not reinvent things, perl/core-utils for one liners. But before I can find the niche, I get turned off by the amount of ceremony -- or maybe just how different the state and edit/evaluate loop is.

    I'm holding onto some things that make common lisp look exciting and useful (static typing[0], APL DSL[1], speed [2,3,4]) and really want to get familiar with structural editing [5]

    [0] https://github.com/phantomics/april - APL dsl

  2. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  3. coalton

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

  4. woo

    A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev

  5. symex.el

    An intuitive way to edit Lisp symbolic expressions ("symexes") structurally in Emacs

  6. awesome-lisp-companies

    Awesome Lisp Companies

    CL is used in a wild range of domains. Web apps to industrial-grade theorem provers to quantum compilers etc.

    Here's an overview for 2022: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-li...

    companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/

    pgloader went from Python to CL: https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...

    my take on why lisp vs python: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/pythonvslisp/

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