Why Lisp?

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  • awesome-cl

    A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.

  • > static strong typing

    Alright, here is it: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/

    > small efficient native binaries

    The numbers are: with SBCL's core-compression, a web app with dozens on dependencies will weight ±30 to 40MB. This includes the compiler, the debugger, etc. Without core compression, we reach ±150MB.

    > The actor runtime?

    the actor library: https://github.com/mdbergmann/cl-gserver

    > couldn't find a way to make money with it. I suspect many other programmers are in my boat.

    Alright. Some do, that's life. Yes, some companies go with CL even in 2023 (https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/, they released https://github.com/KinaKnowledge/juno-lang lately; Feetr (finance): https://twitter.com/feetr_io/status/1587182923911991303)

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

    > Give us an HTTP (1.x & 2.0) and WebSockets libraries

    How so? We have those libraries. HTTP/2: https://github.com/zellerin/http2/

    https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl

  • coalton

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

  • > static strong typing

    Alright, here is it: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/

    > small efficient native binaries

    The numbers are: with SBCL's core-compression, a web app with dozens on dependencies will weight ±30 to 40MB. This includes the compiler, the debugger, etc. Without core compression, we reach ±150MB.

    > The actor runtime?

    the actor library: https://github.com/mdbergmann/cl-gserver

    > couldn't find a way to make money with it. I suspect many other programmers are in my boat.

    Alright. Some do, that's life. Yes, some companies go with CL even in 2023 (https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/, they released https://github.com/KinaKnowledge/juno-lang lately; Feetr (finance): https://twitter.com/feetr_io/status/1587182923911991303)

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

    > Give us an HTTP (1.x & 2.0) and WebSockets libraries

    How so? We have those libraries. HTTP/2: https://github.com/zellerin/http2/

    https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl

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  • opendylan

    Open Dylan compiler and IDE

  • what is this fairly close resemblance? Parentheses?

    There are a bunch of Lisp like languages without s-expression syntax: Lisp 2, Logo, MDL, RLISP, CLISP (not the CL implementation), Dylan, Racket with its new syntax (Racket2, Rhombus), Skill, ...

    For example Dylan is based on Scheme & CLOS + a different syntax + some other influences. https://opendylan.org

    https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/master/sources/...

  • ptpython

    A better Python REPL

  • If you like using the REPL, for Python I recommend you try https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython

  • Mezzano

    An operating system written in Common Lisp

  • >> except building compilers and OSes

    SBCL is written in Lisp, yes? Except the runtime, which is C + asm.

    I've heard people wrote some OSes in the past, like Genera. Or if you prefer recent attempt, try https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano. Never tried it, though.

  • gambit

    Gambit is an efficient implementation of the Scheme programming language.

  • green-threads

    A lightweight thread / cooperative multitasking library for Common Lisp.

  • https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#parallelism-and-c...

    https://github.com/thezerobit/green-threads

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  • cl-gserver

    Sento - Actor framework featuring actors and agents for easy access to state and asynchronous operations.

  • > static strong typing

    Alright, here is it: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/

    > small efficient native binaries

    The numbers are: with SBCL's core-compression, a web app with dozens on dependencies will weight ±30 to 40MB. This includes the compiler, the debugger, etc. Without core compression, we reach ±150MB.

    > The actor runtime?

    the actor library: https://github.com/mdbergmann/cl-gserver

    > couldn't find a way to make money with it. I suspect many other programmers are in my boat.

    Alright. Some do, that's life. Yes, some companies go with CL even in 2023 (https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/, they released https://github.com/KinaKnowledge/juno-lang lately; Feetr (finance): https://twitter.com/feetr_io/status/1587182923911991303)

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

    > Give us an HTTP (1.x & 2.0) and WebSockets libraries

    How so? We have those libraries. HTTP/2: https://github.com/zellerin/http2/

    https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl

  • juno-lang

    Juno Language Repository

  • > static strong typing

    Alright, here is it: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/

    > small efficient native binaries

    The numbers are: with SBCL's core-compression, a web app with dozens on dependencies will weight ±30 to 40MB. This includes the compiler, the debugger, etc. Without core compression, we reach ±150MB.

    > The actor runtime?

    the actor library: https://github.com/mdbergmann/cl-gserver

    > couldn't find a way to make money with it. I suspect many other programmers are in my boat.

    Alright. Some do, that's life. Yes, some companies go with CL even in 2023 (https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/, they released https://github.com/KinaKnowledge/juno-lang lately; Feetr (finance): https://twitter.com/feetr_io/status/1587182923911991303)

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

    > Give us an HTTP (1.x & 2.0) and WebSockets libraries

    How so? We have those libraries. HTTP/2: https://github.com/zellerin/http2/

    https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl

  • awesome-lisp-companies

    Awesome Lisp Companies

  • > static strong typing

    Alright, here is it: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/

    > small efficient native binaries

    The numbers are: with SBCL's core-compression, a web app with dozens on dependencies will weight ±30 to 40MB. This includes the compiler, the debugger, etc. Without core compression, we reach ±150MB.

    > The actor runtime?

    the actor library: https://github.com/mdbergmann/cl-gserver

    > couldn't find a way to make money with it. I suspect many other programmers are in my boat.

    Alright. Some do, that's life. Yes, some companies go with CL even in 2023 (https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/, they released https://github.com/KinaKnowledge/juno-lang lately; Feetr (finance): https://twitter.com/feetr_io/status/1587182923911991303)

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

    > Give us an HTTP (1.x & 2.0) and WebSockets libraries

    How so? We have those libraries. HTTP/2: https://github.com/zellerin/http2/

    https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl

  • http2

    HTTP/2 implementation in Common Lisp (by zellerin)

  • > static strong typing

    Alright, here is it: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/

    > small efficient native binaries

    The numbers are: with SBCL's core-compression, a web app with dozens on dependencies will weight ±30 to 40MB. This includes the compiler, the debugger, etc. Without core compression, we reach ±150MB.

    > The actor runtime?

    the actor library: https://github.com/mdbergmann/cl-gserver

    > couldn't find a way to make money with it. I suspect many other programmers are in my boat.

    Alright. Some do, that's life. Yes, some companies go with CL even in 2023 (https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/, they released https://github.com/KinaKnowledge/juno-lang lately; Feetr (finance): https://twitter.com/feetr_io/status/1587182923911991303)

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

    > Give us an HTTP (1.x & 2.0) and WebSockets libraries

    How so? We have those libraries. HTTP/2: https://github.com/zellerin/http2/

    https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl

  • magicl

    Matrix Algebra proGrams In Common Lisp.

  • use MAGICL. [1] It is optionally and transparently accelerated by BLAS/LAPACK.

    [1] https://github.com/quil-lang/magicl/blob/master/doc/high-lev...

  • ClojureDart

    Clojure dialect for Flutter and Dart

  • > "ClojureDart is production-ready: you can ship applications right now.

    Source: https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart

    See a live demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqBeGpuedf0

    ClojureDart is very similar to ClojureScript, which the GP is already comfortable with.

  • core.match

    An optimized pattern matching library for Clojure

  • I think Clojure has benefited from matching being kept out of the built-in stdlib. https://github.com/clojure/core.match is a plug-in and as a result we've had lots of cool data traversal/matching DSLs come around and evolved user communities with time such as Meander and Datascript not to mention the parsing applications of the schema systems (spec & malli).

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