[HN Gopher] SBCL - New in Version 2.2.7
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SBCL - New in Version 2.2.7
Author : susam
Score : 57 points
Date : 2022-07-30 17:16 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (sbcl.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (sbcl.org)
| deathtrader666 wrote:
| Wonderful to see SBCL getting frequent releases! Looks like they
| are on a monthly cadence.
| sgt wrote:
| Are there any "Why I chose to build my startup around SBCL"
| stories?
| cultofmetatron wrote:
| lisp startups are usually too busy doing unconventional things
| to advertise what they use. dunno why, just stating an
| observation
| derjames wrote:
| Kandria, Open world RPG: https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413
| dang wrote:
| Discussed here:
|
| _Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine
| developed in Common Lisp_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026 - July 2022 (32
| comments)
| reikonomusha wrote:
| Some quantum computing companies use SBCL, specifically to
| build optimizing compilers [1], quantum computer control
| systems, and quantum simulators.
|
| [1] https://chromotopy.org/latex/papers/quilc.pdf
| vzcx wrote:
| Grammarly used SBCL in production:
|
| https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...
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| It also sounds like they were very much a polyglot shop.
| vindarel wrote:
| Here's a recent one, which leads to a couple more:
| https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/ and to
| a (non official and growing) list of companies using CL:
| https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
| emptysea wrote:
| The company that google bought for flights (ITA?) was built on
| SBCL and flights is still written in it. Pretty huge codebase
| from what I heard
| mepian wrote:
| If I remember correctly, Google even contributes to SBCL
| because of that.
| wenc wrote:
| Not SBCL, but HN is written in Arc (a Lisp).
|
| Circle CI is apparently written in Clojure.
| cpeterso wrote:
| The first version of Reddit was written in Common Lisp, but
| less than a year later, they reluctantly migrated to Python
| because Python had a bigger library ecosystem:
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20160803061607/http://www.reddit...
| kazinator wrote:
| I remember a more nuanced version:
|
| - They tried using some commercial Lisp on a platform where
| it was poorly supported, and were struggling with certain
| stability issues (I don't remember the details).
|
| - A team member came on board who, what do you know, had also
| authored the Python-based web framework that they were using
| in the rewrite. Reddit may have been used as the "guinea pig"
| for improving this web framework.
| lenkite wrote:
| Does SBCL compile binaries for Android/iOS ?
| vindarel wrote:
| No, LispWorks does:http://www.lispworks.com/products/lw4mr.html
| and we have seen stuff done by ECL with Qt
| https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml
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