Ask HN: What are the current state-of-the-art Lisp implementations doing?

13 points by sfgweilr4f 4 years ago | 6 comments

I've seen a few lisps floating by lately and am curious in what seasoned lisp programmers think.

What are the high performance lisp implementations doing that the original didn't / simple implementations don't?

I have been writing Clojure full time since 2017. Most of my work is about building mobile/web apps and APIs.

Ferret Lang is a lisp that I dig. It compiles to C++11 and is crazy fast on low powered hardware. Coming from Clojure, Ferret feels nimble. But I don't think I'll ever have a use for it.

frompdx 4 years ago | |

Thank you for sharing Ferret Lang. I'm excited to try this one out. A year ago I went on a quest for something lisp-like on the Arduino. I came across u-lisp but it seemed limited. I ultimately landed on Forth (not a lisp), which was a great learning experience. I think Ferret was what I was looking for at the time.

ampdepolymerase 4 years ago |

They are posting on HN and lambda the ultimate so they can stay relevant.

rurban 4 years ago |

Chez and SBCL (counting the open source ones) are doing fine, and have just better compilers. SBCL optimizations are trivial to improve, Chez not so.

contingencies 4 years ago |

All things considered, KIWIMOB.

xedrac 4 years ago |

Lisp is already at the pinnacle of evolution, and can easily morph into whatever it needs to. That's both its greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.