Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp

Post by tonyarkles » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 8:44 PM UTC

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Sort of. It'd be really great to get a feel for what it'd be like to use without having to mess around with npm and sbcl. Plus the most recent commits to it are 6 years old... while this isn't uncommon in the Lisp world (that community has a pretty solid "we don't need to change this anymore because the library is complete" philosophy), when bringing npm into it I definitely have concerns that this would be a waste o…

Comments in this short thread provide multiple videos and show 150 recent commits to the project!

Amazing! They weren’t on main, didn’t look deeper into the repo.

Post by phantomics » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 9:32 PM UTC

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phantomics wrote: post #13

Hi everyone, developer here. Seed is not abandoned but its original codebase has been; it is now in the process of being rebuilt. You can check on its progress in the revival branch of the repo. Here is a quick video demo of the old Seed: https://vimeo.com/237947324?fl=pl&fe=sh You can see my LispNYC presentation of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnec6_7PWkc In my initial attempt at Seed I didn't yet unders…

Wait, you created April, one of the most amazing hosted languages on Lisp just to learn Lisp? Wow! And here I am toiling over a simple CRUD library management app trying to figure out CLOS and it's not even going well. April is a revelation and I'm putting it in my framework. APL reminds me of Leibniz's alphabet of concepts for his calculus ratiocinator. So gorgeous and efficient. I'm getting the keyboard.

Thanks, the utility of April was a big motivator as well, I used it in my Bloxl project (https://vimeo.com/935602359). Still, one of the reasons I focused on it as much as I did was because I knew that if I couldn't execute such a project well, I would have no chance to realize Seed. Implementing APL is a big undertaking but nonetheless one that has a clearly defined and testable goal. Seed is something with no reference to base a design off of, an objective toward which many paths appear to lead but only a few have the potential to fulfill in the best way. The challenge of such a project is on a completely different level from an APL compiler.

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