Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9

by jackdanielon 9/9/2023, 5:56:03 AM with 9 comments
  • by dig1on 9/9/2023, 8:10:11 AM

    I'm happy to see ECL's restarted development! How many changes are between ECL and MKCL (MKCL was/is an ECL fork)?

    If I'm not mistaken, ECL is (one of a few) embeddable languages that can generate a C code and provide real threads, even if used as a library.

    [1] https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/mkcl/mkcl

  • by superdiskon 9/9/2023, 7:59:13 AM

    I like ECL for its ability to compile Lisp to C and have a native executable. One dream I have is to write a game using the CL-SDL2 bindings and cross compile it for Wasm; It seems possible to do now but the flow isn't very well defined. I got pretty close hacking around a month or two ago but didn't quite finish.

  • by hylloson 9/9/2023, 9:36:57 AM

    How does it compare to Janet https://janet-lang.org/ ?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255116

  • by ducktectiveon 9/9/2023, 7:58:55 AM

    Exciting news! Last release was 2021.

    Thanks to the dev team :)

  • by mark_l_watsonon 9/9/2023, 5:08:21 PM

    I am just installing from source on the tiny Linux laptop I travel with. Until recently I always paid for a LispWorks Pro license, but after retiring check out dropped that and am just using SBCL. I like the idea of having a "second Common Lisp" so I want to try out a Emacs+Slime workflow.

  • by shrubbleon 9/9/2023, 5:35:37 PM

    It would be interesting to see if writing "shell scripts" in ECL and compiling to small static binaries would work in terms of startup and execution speed.

  • by baqon 9/9/2023, 9:46:18 AM

    Tangential: I wanted to embed a sane sandboxed scripting language in a node app and found… nothing. Only options were a completely broken node sub vm, half-broken js sandbox which isn’t maintained and slightly less half broken js sandbox?

    Does everyone roll their own when they need to embed logic expressions in their yamls?

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