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> There's code out there for most use cases, at least for back-end-y things. I'm not sure about that. These days in the backend you need a lot of libraries for
by Zababa 5y ago
> There's code out there for most use cases, at least for back-end-y things.
I'm not sure about that. These days in the backend you need a lot of libraries for cloud providers and new databases/services. For example, is there a Common Lisp library for AWS/Azure/Google cloud? Is there one for Clickhouse?
- Mikeb85 5y agoI've come across Common Lisp SDKs for AWS, there's Heroku build packs, there's Kubernetes clients listed on Kubernetes' website, etc... Clickhouse doesn't have an official CL client but they have a CLI, TCP and HTML interfaces, C++ interface, etc... all listed on their website. It's not that hard to connect to an API without a library. But yes, there's more Java/Python/Go/Ruby/JS stuff pre-built than Common Lisp. But you'll also find more CL stuff out there than almost any esoteric language, probably because it's easy to build stuff in CL.
- tincholio 5y agoRelated to this, there's an AWS SDK for Clojure [0] (created by the same people who are behind Clojure), which is generated from the AWS specs themselves. Carmine, a popular Clojure library for Redis does something very similar. There's also a library for generating SDKs from Swagger specs [2]. I implemented a similar solution (generating Python bindings for some of our APIs from Postman exports), and it was super simple, really. I suspect doing the same in CL would be similarly simple. [0] https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api [1] https://github.com/ptaoussanis/carmine https://github.com/ptaoussanis/carmine [2] https://github.com/oliyh/martian https://github.com/oliyh/martian