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Thank you for this. There is occasionally disagreement about what "Common Lisp" even means, and the spec is often cited, but as far as all of my posts, library work, and applicatio…

The original intent was that `simple-array`, on its own, is not related to `string`. The referenced type hierarchy makes this clearer: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/st…

This was also my impression when reading the article, as someone who uses Sly heavily, every day. I can't imagine not having in-editor access to functionality like recompiling the …

No Emacs entry under editors, and no Clojure in the languages section? Somebody on the survey team had a bone to pick.

Fixed, thank you.

Thanks for this! I'll look into compressing the `.exe` down. With regards to licensing, I think I'm okay. Raylib itself is permissive, and I own the rest of the dependencies (save …

Thanks for the tip. I double-checked, and while there is no difference between 0 and 1 for SBCL and ABCL, there is a slowdown for ECL. I've elaborated here: https://www.fosskers.ca…

A gem from my grandmother's kitchen.

I have being using Trial[1] for the past few weeks to test out game development in Common Lisp, and have been having a great time. Being able to alter (almost) all aspects of your …

This is the Trial game engine[1]. I've been using it recently to making a small game[2], and can say it's quite nice to be able to hot reload functions to test logic, collisions, e…

Not so for Clojure, there's great integration for both the Vim family and VSCode.

I should make it clear that I haven't left Rust; I write it every day professionally. I transitioned from Haskell to Rust to capture efficiency and small binaries. Since I'm in the…

The questions were originally posed by a Doom Emacs community member, so I answered them as-is. The site is designs as it is because I'm not a frontend guy xD

CL-embedded langs like Coalton and April are mentioned in the article.

If the Stackoverflow Dev Survey is to be believed, CL and Clojure devs actually make decent money.

To be the most fair, Fennel 1.4 recently released with an `assert-repl` form that opens a repl when some assertion fails, in which you can inspect local variables, etc. That's gett…

The Clojure Slack has active channels for both job posters and job seekers.

Manual recursion often isn't needed. You can get basically all of what you want from Transducers: https://github.com/fosskers/cl-transducers

Hi. I actually left Haskell for Rust. And when I say "left", I mean I don't start new projects in it. I still maintain my libraries. I wrote Haskell for 10 years or so, both FOSS a…

Yes, it's more than just about the language itself, as I describe here: https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/software-dev-langs For some people, community signals are very important. Ma…

Yes, although that solution can't yet be said to be "push button". My impression is that there are a decent amount of people who want non-JVM, native Clojure. Hence efforts like Ja…

If you're looking for Transducers in other Lisps, I'm working on a porting-and-API unification project here: https://sr.ht/~fosskers/transducers/sources Note that the Emacs Lisp va…

I hope they find the ruins of Numenor soon.

Rust's `cargo` kicks the crap out of either of them.