vindarel

Developer experience, libraries, performance… (2021/11)

I'll preface this with three things. 1. I prefer schemes over Common Lisps, and I prefer Racket of the Schemes. 2. There is more to it than the points I raise here. 3. I assume you have no previous experience with Lisp, and don't have a preference for Schemes over Common Lisp. With all that out of the way... I would say Common Lisp/SBCL. Let me explain

1. SBCL Is by far the most common of the CL implementations in 2021. It will be the easiest to find help for, easiest to find videos about, and many major open source CL projects are written using SBCL
2. Download a binary directly from the website http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html (even for M1 macs) to get up and running (easy to get started)
3. Great video for setting up Emacs + Slime + Quick Lisp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWVu8VVDbI

Now as to why Common Lisp over Scheme

ibLeDy

diff --git a/10-amdgpu.conf b/10-amdgpu.conf
index ef20256..c86f77a 100644
--- a/10-amdgpu.conf
+++ b/10-amdgpu.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Section "OutputClass"
 	Identifier "AMDgpu"
 	MatchDriver "amdgpu"
-	Driver "amdgpu"
+	Driver "modesetting"

shawwn

This was a response to a Hacker News comment asking me what I've been up to since 2010. I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long." I suppose that's fair, since this ended up being something of an autobiography.

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What happened after 2010?

cellularmitosis

Common Lisp Notes

All symbols: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_AllSym.htm

Resources

• Simplified Common Lisp Reference: https://jtra.cz/stuff/lisp/sclr/index.html
• Lots of examples from CSCI 330: http://csci.viu.ca/~wesselsd/courses/csci330/code/lisp/
• The Common Lisp Cookbook: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/