Hi everyone, CIEL is not done, it has rough edges, a build is provided only for Debian-ish systems, but I like the shape it is taking, and it is already useful.

Hi everyone, CIEL is not done, it has rough edges, a build is provided only for Debian-ish systems, but I like the shape it is taking, and it is already useful. Look, it is also a utility to easily write Lisp scripts with batteries included, and run them with a simple shebang (or without). I added this capacity a few weeks ago, in retrospect it's obvious. The most important IMO is that I'm dogfooding it in various ways: launch one-off scripts that lay in my $PATH (simpleHTTPServer), as a CL meta-library I base open-source and closed-source projects on, and musing with its supercharged REPL (access to more utilities with the CIEL-USER package). As a newcomer to CL, I was frustrated with many things, and the more I explored the ecosystem (I still find hidden gems years after), the more I wanted something easier to get started with. This is my exploration of the solution. I want CIEL to be straightforward to use for newcomers, a tool to use Common Lisp for trivial day-to-day tasks, and a ramp for new users to discovering the ecosystem and to creating their own CL libraries and projects (with or without CIEL).