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Gerbil Scheme compiles to native code, and has an actor-oriented concurrency mode. Here's trygerbil.dev: a browser-based REPL backed by real containers, with session persistence, guided examples, and a replay system that survives container sleep.…
Current agent frameworks treat tool definitions as inert data the model can't reason about. The fix isn't a better format, it's a representational property called homoiconicity, and it changes what agents are capable of becoming.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Create a "build script" to dump a headless image: (in-package "CL-USER") (load-all-patches) (save-image "~/lw-console" :console t…