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Ask HN: What are the current state-of-the-art Lisp implementations doing?
I've seen a few lisps floating by lately and am curious in what seasoned lisp programmers think.
What are the high performance lisp implementations doing that the original didn't / simple implementations don't?
- ampdepolymerase 5y agoThey are posting on HN and lambda the ultimate so they can stay relevant.
- xedrac 5y agoLisp is already at the pinnacle of evolution, and can easily morph into whatever it needs to. That's both its greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.
- shivekkhurana 5y agoI have been writing Clojure full time since 2017. Most of my work is about building mobile/web apps and APIs. Ferret Lang is a lisp that I dig. It compiles to C++11 and is crazy fast on low powered hardware. Coming from Clojure, Ferret feels nimble. But I don't think I'll ever have a use for it.
- frompdx 5y agoThank you for sharing Ferret Lang. I'm excited to try this one out. A year ago I went on a quest for something lisp-like on the Arduino. I came across u-lisp but it seemed limited. I ultimately landed on Forth (not a lisp), which was a great learning experience. I think Ferret was what I was looking for at the time.
- contingencies 5y agoAll things considered, KIWIMOB.
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- rurban 5y agoChez and SBCL (counting the open source ones) are doing fine, and have just better compilers. SBCL optimizations are trivial to improve, Chez not so.