[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)
        
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       | 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...
         | 
         | 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:
         | 
         | 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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