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Do you pretty much exclusively use LispWorks, or do you other tooling. I am curious to hear.

• mikelevins 6y ago
  No, I use all sorts of things, depending on what I'm trying to accomplish. I'd probably use SBCL or CCL for everything, if Lispwork' CAPI or something equivalent worked on them. I do use them when I don't need to build a GUI that I can easily port among platforms. When I wrote a WYSIWIG text editor years ago, I did it with CCL because it was for my own use, and I didn't need it to run on platforms other than macOS. If I wrote a new version of it, I'd try to find a way to make it work across Windows and Linux, as well. (I can't use Lispworks for that because it's violates their license restrictions on distributing something that can be used as a Lisp development environment.) I use other languages when I'm paid to, or when I want to do something that is a lot easier to do in another language. For example, I recently wrote a prototype of a web-based collaborative editor and publishing platform for shared documents. I chose Couchbase for storage, because it solves the sync problem reasonably well, and I used Clojure and Clojurescript with React and Reframe, because it worked well with the Couchbase Java SDK. I've been paid to build prototypes, apps, tools, and system software with Lisp, Icon, ML, C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Python, Swift, Prolog, Haskell, Scheme, and other things. If I had a modern version of Ralph, I'd most likely use that. Failing that, Common Lisp is what I like best.