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I browsed through Common Lisp GitHub repos, but it didn't really answer my question. Are there any known, much used applications, frameworks, libraries, whatsoe

by tete 12y ago

I browsed through Common Lisp GitHub repos, but it didn't really answer my question. Are there any known, much used applications, frameworks, libraries, whatsoever? Something to see the structure of big projects? Something that possibly shows there are also bigger companies interested into LISP?

zvrba 12y ago
Not on github, but, IIRC, Catia is written mostly in Lisp.
- epsylon 12y ago
  You're probably thinking of AutoCAD, which isn't written in Lisp, but scriptable using Autodesk's variant of Lisp.
  - lispm 12y ago
    http://www.ptc.com/product/creo-elements-direct/modeling http://www.ptc.com/product/creo-elements-direct/modeling written mostly in Lisp
    - zvrba 12y ago
      Yes, it was PTC. I couldn't remember it. Thanks.
rayiner 12y ago
Lisp was popular back when the "interesting" apps were things like compilers, AI systems, mathematics systems, GUI's, etc. See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Common_Lisp_software http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Common_Lisp_software
- throwawayaway 12y ago
  what do you consider interesting nowadays?
  - rayiner 12y ago
    I mean "interesting" in the sense that those were areas of active research and development. I think the equivalent today would be things like control software for self-driving cars and drones, the software that does StreetView, etc.
- fulafel 12y ago
  It's a bummer compilers out of vogue now. For example, lackluster compiler tech is the reason GPU computing is still stuck in rare niches.
emiljbs 12y ago
Sure, check out pgloader (this guy re-wrote a Python program into Common Lisp and wrote about the experience), the European Lisp Symposium ( http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/content-programme-full.html http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/content-programme-ful... ), it's used by Google (ITA, air fairing system), it was used by Naughty Dog for their PS1 and PS2 games (they still use Lisp for scripting), it's been used by NASA, DART ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replanning_Tool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin... ), Cyc, there's a European company I can't remember the name of that uses Common Lisp for its train scheduling system. There's this new Swedish music company that uses Common Lisp for their software. If you want to see much used applications in the Common Lisp community then check out all of Edi Weitz' software http://weitz.de/ http://weitz.de/ Most Common Lisp that you use is in stuff you don't see, there're no Ruby hipsters here. EDIT: Oh, or why not something like StumpWm? Really, thre's a lot of cool Common Lisp software out there.
616c 12y ago
StumpWM window manager, the successor to Ratpoison. Both are awesome (obvious disclaimer: I use both). Not on Github per se, but still awesome.
- jinwoo68 12y ago
  StumpWM is on github. https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm

by tete 12y ago

zvrba 12y ago

Not on github, but, IIRC, Catia is written mostly in Lisp.

epsylon 12y ago
You're probably thinking of AutoCAD, which isn't written in Lisp, but scriptable using Autodesk's variant of Lisp.
- lispm 12y ago
  http://www.ptc.com/product/creo-elements-direct/modeling http://www.ptc.com/product/creo-elements-direct/modeling written mostly in Lisp
  - zvrba 12y ago
    Yes, it was PTC. I couldn't remember it. Thanks.

rayiner 12y ago

Lisp was popular back when the "interesting" apps were things like compilers, AI systems, mathematics systems, GUI's, etc. See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Common_Lisp_software http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Common_Lisp_software

throwawayaway 12y ago
what do you consider interesting nowadays?
- rayiner 12y ago
  I mean "interesting" in the sense that those were areas of active research and development. I think the equivalent today would be things like control software for self-driving cars and drones, the software that does StreetView, etc.
fulafel 12y ago
It's a bummer compilers out of vogue now. For example, lackluster compiler tech is the reason GPU computing is still stuck in rare niches.

emiljbs 12y ago

Sure, check out pgloader (this guy re-wrote a Python program into Common Lisp and wrote about the experience), the European Lisp Symposium ( http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/content-programme-full.html http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/content-programme-ful... ), it's used by Google (ITA, air fairing system), it was used by Naughty Dog for their PS1 and PS2 games (they still use Lisp for scripting), it's been used by NASA, DART ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replanning_Tool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin... ), Cyc, there's a European company I can't remember the name of that uses Common Lisp for its train scheduling system. There's this new Swedish music company that uses Common Lisp for their software. If you want to see much used applications in the Common Lisp community then check out all of Edi Weitz' software http://weitz.de/ http://weitz.de/ Most Common Lisp that you use is in stuff you don't see, there're no Ruby hipsters here. EDIT: Oh, or why not something like StumpWm? Really, thre's a lot of cool Common Lisp software out there.

616c 12y ago

StumpWM window manager, the successor to Ratpoison. Both are awesome (obvious disclaimer: I use both). Not on Github per se, but still awesome.

jinwoo68 12y ago
StumpWM is on github. https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm