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There are three commercial lisp companies that continue to exist selling CL platforms. They exist despite SBCL being faster. They even make stuff like tools to
by hajile 5y ago
There are three commercial lisp companies that continue to exist selling CL platforms. They exist despite SBCL being faster. They even make stuff like tools to build iOS and Android apps in CL. They didn't invest the money building that that out for no reason.
The companies that use lisp don't tend to talk about it. For example, a company I worked for only talked about their Ruby/rails and javascript stuff publicly. It was only after I hired that I found out that the mission-critical core software was written in Common Lisp.
- vindarel 5y agoCool. Do you think we can know it now?
- bmitc 5y agoWhat are the three companies? I know of Allegro CL and LispWorks.
- hajile 5y agoWhile Clozure CL is free to use, it has a group that offers commercial support. mocl for android/iOS may still exist. Last I knew, Scieneer (HPC variant of CMUCL) was also commercial (no idea if they're still around though).