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SBCL – New in Version 2.2.7
- BearOso 4y agoI realize SBCL predates this folly, but I always regard things hosted on sourceforge with hesitancy after that sketchy ownership period. I'm surprised so many projects stuck with it, especially since their VCS servers were so slow during that time, too.
- deathtrader666 4y agoWonderful to see SBCL getting frequent releases! Looks like they are on a monthly cadence.
- sgt 4y agoAre there any "Why I chose to build my startup around SBCL" stories?
- vzcx 4y agoGrammarly used SBCL in production: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-production/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p... It also sounds like they were very much a polyglot shop.
- vindarel 4y agoHere's a recent one, which leads to a couple more: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/ https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/ and to a (non official and growing) list of companies using CL: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
- emptysea 4y agoThe company that google bought for flights (ITA?) was built on SBCL and flights is still written in it. Pretty huge codebase from what I heard
- mepian 4y agoIf I remember correctly, Google even contributes to SBCL because of that.
- wenc 4y agoNot SBCL, but HN is written in Arc (a Lisp). Circle CI is apparently written in Clojure.
- cpeterso 4y agoThe first version of Reddit was written in Common Lisp, but less than a year later, they reluctantly migrated to Python because Python had a bigger library ecosystem: https://web.archive.org/web/20160803061607/http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160803061607/http://www.reddit...
- kazinator 4y agoI remember a more nuanced version: - They tried using some commercial Lisp on a platform where it was poorly supported, and were struggling with certain stability issues (I don't remember the details). - A team member came on board who, what do you know, had also authored the Python-based web framework that they were using in the rewrite. Reddit may have been used as the "guinea pig" for improving this web framework.
- kazinator 4y agoSorry, I misremembered all that. It's hard to find the original information. One of the devs revealed that he was working OpenMCL on a Mac ... but then Reddit was actually running with CMUCL on FreeBSD. (Yes, really!) He couldn't basically even run all of Reddit in the dev environment. (Regarding "commerical Lisp"; that's what some Lisp people were saying should have been given consideration.)
- cultofmetatron 4y agolisp startups are usually too busy doing unconventional things to advertise what they use. dunno why, just stating an observation
- derjames 4y agoKandria, Open world RPG: https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413 https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413
- dang 4y agoDiscussed here: Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine developed in Common Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026 - July 2022 (32 comments)
- reikonomusha 4y agoSome quantum computing companies use SBCL, specifically to build optimizing compilers [1], quantum computer control systems, and quantum simulators. [1] https://chromotopy.org/latex/papers/quilc.pdf https://chromotopy.org/latex/papers/quilc.pdf
- lenkite 4y agoDoes SBCL compile binaries for Android/iOS ?
- vindarel 4y agoNo, LispWorks does:http://www.lispworks.com/products/lw4mr.html http://www.lispworks.com/products/lw4mr.html and we have seen stuff done by ECL with Qt https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml
- fithisux 4y agoGood opportunity to start learning this August.