Common Lisp implementations in 2023:
- SBCL
Everything else is de-facto dead or in a proprietary silo.
Common Lisp Implementations in 2023
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#12I always like seeing Common Lisp links, but personally I was a bit put off by the very strong anti-commercial comments about LispWorks and Franz. I had a business idea requiring Common Lisp a few years ago and I purchased a LispWorks Professional license. Small standalone executables with a tree shaker [1] and I has received very good support without paying for the high priority support service. I also paid the maint…
The commercial aspect is not a problem in my opinion (but again english is not my main language so I might have conveyed the wrong tone). The issue is the pricing model which may work for established company ready to invest money from the start, but is simply out of touch with independant developers and small companies exploring the possibility of using Common Lisp. Open sourcing Lispworks and selling support contrac…
> The issue is the pricing model which may work for established company ready to invest money from the start, but ...
That's a much more nuanced way to put it - compared to "The professional and enterprise licenses do not really make sense for anyone".
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#14I would like to learn Lisp but am easily confused with where to start. What implementation do I use? On a general level do I start with CL, schema, racket, etc (apologies I know this thread is about common lisp). It's all very confusing.
I'm like this with most things, like I want to learn Forth too but have that same problem. I learned vanilla JavaScript because I didn't know where to start with the 1000+ frameworks; and as a result am learning flutter/dart for cross platform apps.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
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#18I would like to learn Lisp but am easily confused with where to start. What implementation do I use? On a general level do I start with CL, schema, racket, etc (apologies I know this thread is about common lisp). It's all very confusing. I'm like this with most things, like I want to learn Forth too but have that same problem. I learned vanilla JavaScript because I didn't know where to start with the 1000+ frameworks…
In my opinion, the simplest way is to start with Common Lisp, with SBCL and the Practical Common Lisp book by Peter Seibel.
Make sure you are comfortable with Emacs. It is possible to write Common Lisp without it, but Emacs and SLIME are so much better than anything else it feels like cheating.
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#19I would like to learn Lisp but am easily confused with where to start. What implementation do I use? On a general level do I start with CL, schema, racket, etc (apologies I know this thread is about common lisp). It's all very confusing. I'm like this with most things, like I want to learn Forth too but have that same problem. I learned vanilla JavaScript because I didn't know where to start with the 1000+ frameworks…
Racket is a good education language and has lots of features with batteries included.
You can also use Clojure if you already know Java, or ClojureScript a fantastic compile-to-JS language.
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