Show HN: An implementation of Common Lisp in development, reached version 1.6

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27 pointsandreamonaco4 months ago3 comments

It reached version 1.6, now it covers more than 80% of the standard. alisp ships with ASDF and is capable of loading many real-world systems, let me know if your favorite system succeeds! License is GPL3 or later, no LLMs used.

Rochus 4mo

That's cool. I wonder how you manage to keep track of everything with this huge all-in-one main.c. Do you plan to achieve 100%? Is there a list of what is actually missing and which relevant projects depend on the missing parts? What are the core benefits compared to e.g. ECL or CLISP?

andreamonacoOP4mo

I wonder how you manage to keep track of everything with this huge all-in-one main.c

To me it's not different from having multiple files, on the contrary it's even easier to do search and replace

Do you plan to achieve 100%?

Yes!

Is there a list of what is actually missing and which relevant projects depend on the missing parts?

Yes, a partial list is in "Known bugs and limitations" in NOTES.

What are the core benefits compared to e.g. ECL or CLISP?

Well, the code base is smaller and (arguably) easier to read. Building is easier. There's a debugger with stepping, very easy to use

Rochus 4mo

Amazing work, thanks.

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