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Anyone seen a roadmap for SBCL? I heard something about coroutines being worked on but I can’t find any information.
by nesarkvechnep 2y ago
Anyone seen a roadmap for SBCL? I heard something about coroutines being worked on but I can’t find any information.
- behnamoh 2y agotbh I wish something like BEAM's processes would get implemented. I know there's a Lisp for BEAM (https://lfe.io/ https://lfe.io/) but having that in SBCL would be a game changer. Anyway, it's impressive how fast SBCL can be given the amount of developer time/money it receives compared to Java, etc.
- nesarkvechnep 2y agoCoroutines, and generators more specifically, will be in my opinion the basis for asynchronous programming a la Rust. BEAM style concurrency requires preemptive scheduling which I don’t see happening. It requires a rewrite from the ground up.
- hedora 2y agoDoes SBCL have a borrow checker? To the extent that things are immutable and side-effect free, then it’d be data race free like Rust, but how does it handle code that needs to mutate state?
- hayley-patton 2y agoIt has data races. Why would SBCL have a borrow checker?
- hedora 2y agoIdeally, some lisp would have one (or hopefully something simpler/more ergonomic) to eliminate data races, like the rust one does. The rust borrow checker also eliminates memory allocation bugs, but that’s less interesting to me.
- NikkiA 2y agoCarp ? https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
- az09mugen 2y agoThe lifetime borrow checker is a paradigm specific to Rust and is the only language to use it to my knowledge. Just for the perspective, Rust is 9 years old, SBCL 25 years old and the first implementation of Lisp is 64 years old
- pfdietz 2y agoMy roadmap is to find new ways to abuse it.