Lisp & Scheme recap for week 8/2023

From 20/2/2023 to 26/2/2023

Articles #

• New Clojurians: Ask Anything - February 20, 2023 283 comments in 15 discussions

• Common Lisp implementations in 2023 23 comments in 1 discussion

• sbcl and Let Over Lambda 22 comments in 1 discussion

• How to understand closures in Common Lisp. "There is a lot of elaborate bowing and scraping about closures in the Lisp community. But despite that a closure isn’t actually a thing" 17 comments in 1 discussion

• Symbolic Programming using Clojure (pdf) 15 comments in 2 discussions

• Enion Online: A 3D multiplayer PvP battle game between orcs and humans, written in Clojure and ClojureScript 14 comments in 1 discussion

• sbcl-goodies: distributing binaries with Common Lisp and foreign libraries. libssl, libcrypto and libfixposix are statically baked in. 12 comments in 2 discussions

• FOSDEM 2023 - LIPS Scheme: Powerful introspection and extensibility [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• format vs. formatter - using and implementing 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Custom Font Lock configuration in Emacs: "The core issue of Common Lisp highlighting in Emacs is that a lot of it is arbitrary and inconsistent" 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Introducing Nite: Common Lisp Web Framework based on Clack (very early effort) 2 comments in 1 discussion

• PyLisp – A Tiny Lisp in Python using Fuzzy logic

• Upcoming Clojure Events

• Using Javascript libraries from Clojure

• SLT 0.4.1 is now available on Jetbrains Marketplace!

Releases #

• ABCL 1.9.1 released 2 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• wotbrew/relic: FRP for Clojure(Script) 102 comments in 2 discussions

• minimax — minimalist 3D game engine in Clojure 10 comments in 1 discussion

• johnmn3/cljs-thread: One step closer to threads on the web 8 comments in 1 discussion

• cl-replica - Library for hash-table replication via epidemic algorithms for large heterogeneous unreliable networks. 7 comments in 1 discussion

• calm: Calm down and draw something. A drawing app distributed as a binary, an AppImage, a macOS Application bundle and a Windows Installer. 2 comments in 1 discussion

• kennytilton/flutter-mx: Flutter + ClojureDart, with Matrix Inside(tm)

• bsless/datalog-parser.malli: Datomic Datalog parser in Clojure with malli

Videos #

• Meetup (streamed): Blambda! The sound of Babashka and Lambda colliding. Photo of Hosted 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Book review: Land of Lisp / Conrad Barski / 2010 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Immutable Conversations | Common Lisp 4 comments in 1 discussion

• London Clojurians Talk: Model-driven systems with zen-lang (by Nikolai Ryzhikov)

• Give me Interactive Programming, or give me death, by Peter Strömberg

• screencast: a simple chat using event-emitter as an event bus, with Weblocks [russian, english subs]