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I want to try rewrite it from scratch in Common Lisp. What web technologies stack to use?
SproutCore + Hunchentoot + MongoDB is it right choice?
Unless, of course, you have a really simple schema so that you want to use the DB as a mere persistence layer. Or you know from the beginning that you'll have to scale really huge. But then, you'd need a highly customized framework anyway, which would somewhat defeat the purpose of writing a general purpose framework in the spirit of Django.
Also, PostgreSQL is allows to be extended from inside, thus working much in the spirit of Lisp. It can be extended with plain C code, but has also language support for pgSQL, Perl, Python and Tcl:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/server-program...
Unfortunately, language support for Lisp languages is missing yet, but this might be only a matter of time (and would be really great).
Another approach for people who are just trying to get something done rather than write a framework to consider is to use CL to do the interesting bits and something else for the web frontend. I've built a couple webapps in CL that would simply have been easier in Rails.
Using Lisp for a web dev platform was pretty nice. I was a support engineer in those days and I always found it useful to be able to pull up a console and inspect the actual running sessions to debug problems in production.
Personally, I'd leverage on PostgreSQL rather than MongoDB, because I think relational databases are still the best fit for the majority of modern web applications. Unless, of course, you have a really simple schema so that you want to use the DB as a mere persistence layer. Or you know from the beginning that you'll have to scale really huge. But then, you'd need a highly customized framework anyway, which would som…
About web frameworks others have mentioned AllegroServe, which looks quite good with the logic and view separation in templates and actions, similar to Django. Other people prefer to code the HTML inline with cl-who i.e.
If you're developing an application in the web you may find worth a continuation based framework like weblocks or UCW. Cliki contains a fair amount of libraries categorized. Here you have the database libraries: http://www.cliki.net/database
With any luck, mahmud will be here to talk about real-world CL web development. He's been using CL for web stuff in his startup for a couple years, I think. Another approach for people who are just trying to get something done rather than write a framework to consider is to use CL to do the interesting bits and something else for the web frontend. I've built a couple webapps in CL that would simply have been easier i…