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I’ve often wondered why SBCL hasn’t been used as the basis for some of the newer lisps and lisp-alikes. It’s performance is pretty great, and is worlds closer t
by peatmoss 7y ago
I’ve often wondered why SBCL hasn’t been used as the basis for some of the newer lisps and lisp-alikes. It’s performance is pretty great, and is worlds closer to Clojure than the JVM.
- dang 7y agoWe've been implementing Arc over SBCL. It's called Clarc. I can't seem to find time to work on it. There's a bit more description here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21550123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21550123
- nextos 7y agoQi and Shen are pretty interesting. Qi compiles to CL, and Shen compiles to a tiny Lisp subset quite easy to port. But Qi license is quite bad. I think Shen adopted BSD, but is still quite niche or close to abandonware.