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An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)

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Re: An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)

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Why would you have to learn emacs? You can largely batch compile and run lisp code same as any other language, if that is what you want to do. In many ways, the workflow can be very similar to python, if you don't want to get too advanced in the repl. And, to stress, you don't have to get too advanced to get going.

Simply using rlwrap with sbcl is workable.

rlwrap is a great tool to have in your toolbelt anyways

Re: An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)

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Do you not count LispWorks in this? I haven't had a chance to play with the commercial Lisps myself, but anecdotally it seems to still have some currency.

I didn't, but perhaps I should have. There's a question of whether it's live enough to count, or if it's just in maintenance mode. The last release was in 2021, but there have been gaps that long before that.

Common Lisp hasn’t changed a whole lot since 2021. And it supports Apple Silicon, and it even has, apparently, a Mobile runtime.

I imagine that’s ticking the boxes for most of their users, and they’re not in the endless “security update” treadmill.

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