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A few cool thing happened! I might give the CLOS course a try! I’m a functional guy but I feel CLOS isn’t your typical object system.
As a functional fan, CLOS is amazing.
Is there a web framework that is reasonably popular/supported?
I really like this, as from an outsider it seems that CL doesn't have a community and the few packages it has are more like building blocks for customizing and implementing you required functionality rather than packaged black boxes. With all those new languages, it appears that the value proposition of CL is dwindling, static checking feels primitive, macros are easily attainable now, and live runtime image manipula…
Live image manipulation isn't quite as useful as it once was for runtime program deployment. But it's still a differentiating feature for incremental and interactive development—before you compile binaries to deploy. Tools like Jupyter notebooks don't come close for actual (especially professional) software development.
Is there a web framework that is reasonably popular/supported?
Radiance[0] is a more traditional web-framework, with interfaces for backend-storage, web-servers, templating, authentication &c.
Hunchentoot gives you basic route definitions out-of-the-box (bring your own database), and for something more full-featured there is CLOG[1] and Reblocks[2]
0: https://shirakumo.github.io/radiance
Hey, my little webassembly demo was linked, cool. Nice article!
Is there a web framework that is reasonably popular/supported?
A few cool thing happened! I might give the CLOS course a try! I’m a functional guy but I feel CLOS isn’t your typical object system.
Indeed, most successful FP languages have their OOP like approaches. Another thing all modern Lisps have since the 1980's, is all major data structures, not only lists as many think when discussing Lisp.
Having to use accessor functions or destructuring macros instead of just a period or -> is often annoying too. The lack of syntax has cons as well as pros.
A few cool thing happened! I might give the CLOS course a try! I’m a functional guy but I feel CLOS isn’t your typical object system.
Indeed, most successful FP languages have their OOP like approaches. Another thing all modern Lisps have since the 1980's, is all major data structures, not only lists as many think when discussing Lisp.
Everybody forgets about SICL. It's one of the few new CL implementations that's not proprietary or copyleft. https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL