Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

#1

Post by endswapper » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 1:13 PM UTC

What/why?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by Grue3 » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 2:47 PM UTC

I'm using Common Lisp for all my personal projects (https://ichi.moe is the biggest one). I find it the easiest language to develop in, because of the tooling (SLIME), language features (CLOS, macros), and it fits my mental model the best. Granted I've been using it for a very long time, so maybe I'm just more familiar with it.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by somethingsimple » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 3:00 PM UTC

Grue3 wrote: post #2

I'm using Common Lisp for all my personal projects ( https://ichi.moe is the biggest one). I find it the easiest language to develop in, because of the tooling (SLIME), language features (CLOS, macros), and it fits my mental model the best. Granted I've been using it for a very long time, so maybe I'm just more familiar with it.

Which implementation do you use?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by limeblack » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 3:17 PM UTC

I use clisp mainly with quicklisp. Lisp isn't rather unique and simple so I have used it for an occasionally algorithm that is annoying any other way. Not for the entire system typically.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by Grue3 » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 6:32 PM UTC

somethingsimple wrote: post #3

Grue3 wrote: post #2

I'm using Common Lisp for all my personal projects ( https://ichi.moe is the biggest one). I find it the easiest language to develop in, because of the tooling (SLIME), language features (CLOS, macros), and it fits my mental model the best. Granted I've been using it for a very long time, so maybe I'm just more familiar with it.

Which implementation do you use?

SBCL aka the best one. I develop on both Windows and Linux machines, depending on circumstances and it works pretty well on both.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by Sodaware » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 9:10 PM UTC

It's nothing major, but I built a simple web scraper for collecting screenshots from various forums and then creating a static site from it.

I've also used it to build small tools like generating project documentation or collating data from online api's.

Emacs was my gateway (via org mode) and I messed around with Emacs lisp for a while before learning Common Lisp. Developing in Emacs + SLIME is a lot of fun once I get in the rhythm.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by yellowapple » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 1:16 AM UTC

Does using StumpWM count?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by yoklov » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 2:34 AM UTC

Grue3 wrote: post #2

I'm using Common Lisp for all my personal projects ( https://ichi.moe is the biggest one). I find it the easiest language to develop in, because of the tooling (SLIME), language features (CLOS, macros), and it fits my mental model the best. Granted I've been using it for a very long time, so maybe I'm just more familiar with it.

I have no real opinion on the tech stack (beyond being glad that it works for you), but this is very cool, and is something I've looked for in the past, unsuccessfully.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by spacemanmatt » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 5:11 AM UTC

The venerable pgloader (https://pgloader.io/) is written/maintained in CL. It's pretty cool.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

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Post by reikonomusha » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 5:56 AM UTC

Rigetti Computing [1] uses it for a variety of their projects, including their high-performance quantum computer simulator called the QVM [2], and their quantum compiler.

Some of their use of Lisp has been presented in more detail at the European Lisp Symposium. You can see it in the Cutting Edge section of the proceedings [3].

[1] https://www.rigetti.com

[2] https://youtu.be/f9vRcSAneiw

[3] https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/static/proceedings/2...