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I agree: CL is a wonderful language but you have to embrace the whole environment/philosophy if you want to adopt it. And the language is not so easy to embed w
by register 8y ago
I agree: CL is a wonderful language but you have to embrace the whole environment/philosophy if you want to adopt it. And the language is not so easy to embed which prevents many "enterprise"/application development use cases.
As a matter of fact the only game in town for embedding CL code is ECL which:
1) relies on the Bohem garbage collector
2) is LGPL licensed
Both points have cons which might discourage embedding of Common Lisp code in other applications.
Matters would be different if there was something like a CL to C transplier adopting a generational GC distributed with a MIT/BSD like license.
- jarcane 8y agoSBCL on some benchmarks outperforms C, and what portions of the code are not completely public domain are MIT/BSD licensed.
- register 8y agoMy point was not about peformances but rather about embedding. CL performances are good and toghether with interactive development these are the main selling points. It's a compiled programming language that feels like a scripting language "done right". However try to develop something like an embeddable library in SBCL and then use it in native Android, Ios , Mac and Windows applications. This is something that can be done in Javascript, Go, Dart, C,C++, Lua and so on. As far as I know the only CL that can achieve something similar is ECL. In my opinion this limits considerably CL adoption because it forces to adopt the entire ecosystem as a whole.