Smelter
tl;dr: a CLI for Coalton scripts I've been working on Smelter: a way to use Coalton for writing shell scripts and small CLI programs. It's an experimental way to get type-safe scripting with…
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Coalton Playground "V2", now with sharing and snippets
Following up on the initial version here, so read that first. tl;dr: Coalton is a statically-typed dialect library for/within Common Lisp. You get to have your ML cake and eat it with the parenthe…
Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in Your Browser
I wanted to share a side project I've been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground - basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this interesting sta…
On Languages being all wrong
An extract from David Moon's presentation of "Lunar": Most current-day programming languages seem to be based on the idea that computation is slow, so the user and the compiler must wor…
Allegro Common Lisp
I’ve always been curious about trying different lisp/scheme implementations (will write about that someday). One of these has been Allegro Common Lisp. It’s old, it’s stable, it’s maintained, it’s at…
"Live" Objects
An interesting new paper on "Live Metacircular Runtimes" (or, to put it a bit edgily, "making live objects great again" 😀) The examples and focus are from "the Smalltalk sc…
To CIEL and beyond
There have been a lot of "modern" libraries within Common Lisp, but there isn't a coherent way to "look at" them together. So the impression of CL as this "frozen in time…
(Untitled)
An excellent HN comment (source) > Common Lisp and SmallTalk have rapid dev models by working in a running image, CLOG gives Common Lisp a foss visual IDE moving closer to its goal of marriage of…
On Scheme in Common Lisp
I'd read through all of Erik Naggum's posts in Xach's archive several years ago, but revisiting one of them today. A choice quote at the end: > if you really want to implement your o…
Lispworks from SublimeText
Create a "build script" to dump a headless image: (in-package "CL-USER") (load-all-patches) (save-image "~/lw-console" :console t…
Lispworks color themes
Setting color themes in LispWorks Downloaded and loaded this file Showing two of the in-built themes (loading the files defines package editor-color-theme, which has the themes in *all-color-themes*…
Shen lives
Discovery I remember coming across "Qi" a long time ago, a work of brilliance by one Dr. Mark Tarver. He happened to have a lot of quirky essays as well, and had ... interesting interests.…