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Look at the hoops OP had to jump through to get SBCL working on Windows. I think Graal would compared favourably with that.
by macmac 2y ago
Look at the hoops OP had to jump through to get SBCL working on Windows. I think Graal would compared favourably with that.
- anthk 2y agoWhat did you mean? Can't the user just download Portacle and use it? https://portacle.github.io/ https://portacle.github.io/ Problem solved.
- chii 2y agoRight at the top of the article, the author outlines the requirement was that it must be usable within vim.
- anthk 2y agoNot an issue for Common Lisp, you can use whatever you like, but interacting with a REPL gives you superpowers.
- macmac 2y agoNot really. OP needs to build executables. It is documented here: https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/release-common-lisp-on-your-first-day/ https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/release-common-lisp-on-your-f...
- vindarel 2y agoPortacle ships SBCL so one can build executables when using Portacle.
- IshKebab 2y agoProbably, but that doesn't mean Graal is good; it just means they're both bad. Compare it to something like Go or Rust where there are no hoops and they're both well supported on Windows and Mac. I haven't actually used it but I believe Zig has very good cross platform support too.
- no_wizard 2y agoif I recall correctly Rust support for windows still has issues, namely there are a number of Windows specific APIs that are either not well supported or aren’t supported at all. I could be mistaken or recalling outdated information of course, but that is what I remember from the last time I looked into it