awesome-cl

A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff. (by CodyReichert)

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  • 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2024
    I know you're not asking for recommendations, but Lisp, particularly SBCL, really seems to check all your boxes. I say this as someone who generally reaches for Scheme when it comes to Lisps too.

    There are a few game engines[0] for CL, but most of them seem to be catered specifically to 2D games.

    [0] https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl?tab=readme-ov-fil...

  • KamilaLisp – A functional, flexible and concise Lisp
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024
    Hello, a single counter-example I hope https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...

    (see more from https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl?tab=readme-ov-fil...

    https://cl-community-spec.github.io/pages/index.html

    and some more)

  • Why Is Common Lisp Not the Most Popular Programming Language?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
    Everyone, if you don't have a clue on how's Common Lisp going these days, I suggest:

    https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-li... (https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/107oejk/these_years_i...)

    A curated list of libraries: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl

    Some companies, the ones we hear about: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/

    and oh, some more editors besides Emacs or Vim: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... (Atom/Pulsar support is good, VSCode support less so, Jetbrains one getting good, Lem is a modern Emacsy built in CL, Jupyter notebooks, cl-repl for a terminal REPL, etc)

  • Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (1992) [pdf]
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
    check out the editor section, there's more than Emacs these days: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...

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

    - https://www.classcentral.com/report/best-lisp-courses/#ancho...

    - a recent overview of the ecosystem: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-li... (shameless plug, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321090)

  • Spinneret: A modern Common Lisp HTML generator
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    More HTML generators for CL: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#html-generators-a... there are lispy ones (Spinneret), Django-like ones (Djula, I like it, easy to use and extend), HTML-based allowing for inline Lisp code (Ten), JSX-like ones (lsx, markup), and more.
  • Common Lisp JSON parser?
    2 projects | /r/lisp | 17 Sep 2023
    https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl is usually a good place to find recommendations. Jzon is pretty good.
  • All of Mark Watson's Lisp Books
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2023
    > obstacles add up

    I actually agree. It wasn't smooth for me to ship my first CL app. It's all better now (more tools, more documentation, more blog posts from several people, more SO questions and answers!).

    > performant

    SBCL is in the same ballpack of C, Rust or Java in many benchmarks.

    In this article series, the author writes the same program in CL, Rust and Java. In fact, he copy-pastes a PG snippet from 30 years ago. This snippet beats Rust and Java in LOC and speed. But, yeah, he wasn't writing super efficient Rust code, so after many discussions, pull requests and sweating, the Rust code became the most performant. https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revisiting-prechelt-paper-... It didn't take work to make the CL code performant, more so for the Rust one ;)

    a benchmark after sb-simd vectorization: https://preview.redd.it/vn5juu36v2681.png?width=715&format=p... (https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/riedio/quite_a...)

    > good tools for networking, for writing concurrent or asynchronous code, for graphics,

    I refer the reader to https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl but yes, CL won't have the best libraries in some scenarii (GUI? Tk libs are good, we have Gtk4, a Qt5 library used in production© by a big player but difficult to install etc)

    > it doesn't give you a good package manager or means of distributing code

    Quicklisp is neat, with limitations, that can be addressed with Qlot, ql-https, or CLPM or the newest ocicl.

  • How to Understand and Use Common Lisp
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2023
    It's a good book!

    Modern companions would be:

    - the Cookbook: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ (check out the editors section: Atom/Pulsar, VSCode, Sublime, Jetbrains, Lem...)

    - https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl to find libraries

    Also:

    - https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/

    - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321090 2022 in review

  • Why Lisp?
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2023
    > 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

  • Peter Norvig – Paradigms of AI Programming Case Studies in Common Lisp
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2023
    https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp -- this one is great, and the first thing I recommend

    https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ -- also great and up to date

    https://awesome-cl.com/ -- for anything else.

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