Lispium ?

What if you did the following:

  • Take a chromebook
  • Modify the chromium build running to run Sbcl within it.
  • Create lisp bindings to the internal surface, so that all UI elements can be created and manipulated within the Lisp image.
  • Allow downloading, compiling and running arbitrary lisp code
  • One of the tabs is always a Repl
  • Add a caching filesystem that would persist part or whole of the image

… might this create a modern-day Lisp machine? Maybe.

Did I miss anything obvious here? If not, this sounds doable in a few years.

I’m lazy, do you if you like this idea (I’m sure there’s a guaranteed niche market for these machines), go ahead and throw it on to Kickstarter. Or something.

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