> "Without database access, sockets, threads, POSIX, or a portable FFI (which I could at least use to write many of those features), my programs can't talk to t

> "Without database access, sockets, threads, POSIX, or a portable FFI (which I could at least use to write many of those features), my programs can't talk to the outside world, and that makes them basically useless." I'm embedding it so it's going to talk to my C wrapper for everything. How are you using it? Also see: Using Python libraries from Lisp http://common-lisp.net/project/python-on-lisp/ http://common-lisp.net/project/python-on-lisp/ From Reddit a comment: "cliki.net/asdf-install and sbcl would have got him just about all he asked. SBCL does posix and threading, cl-sql, cffi for db and ffi, and I am pretty sure sbcl does sockets too."