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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…
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*…
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.…
It can be really simple. Stumbled across this ... ... and (yes, questionable aesthetics aside) decided to recreate it: Really does work as advertised: One-time stuff I had to run: (ql:quickload &…