SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]

Previously:

SBCL (16 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140657 (107 comments)

Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41530783 (81 comments)

An exploration of SBCL internals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115083 (106 comments)

Arena Allocation in SBCL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052564 (32 comments)

SBCL (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544573 (167 comments)

Parallel garbage collection for SBCL [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296153 (45 comments)

SBCL 2.3.5 released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36107154 (31 comments)

Using SBCL Common Lisp as a Dynamic Library (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054796 (67 comments)

etc

> Current Common Lisp implementations can usually support both image-oriented and source-oriented development. Image-oriented environments (for example, Squeak Smalltalk]) have as their interchange format an image file or memory dump containing all the objects present in the system, which can be later restarted on the same or distinct hardware. By contrast, a source-oriented environment uses individual, human-readable files for recording information for reconstructing the project under development; these files are processed by the environment to convert their contents into material which can be executed.

Am I reading this right that people can (and do??) use images as a complete replacement for source code files?

SBCL is lovely and very well optimised. Been using it for many personal projects as it just works and it is so easy to work with and debug. I cry a lot when I have to use 'modern' things. But those make money, they are just far worse.

SBCL seems pretty actively developed. A proposal for coroutines implementation appeared recently and AFAIK it is being actively discussed and improved upon.

As someone who fell in love with Lisp with Scheme and SICP, I think I agree with the push for minimalism and a bit dubious about the changes in Lisp-2 ...

Is that only a recency bias ? Because I learned Scheme first ? When I try CL I find my mind resisting some things due to purely elegance reasons.

If someone put a gun to my head and asked me for a deliverable quickly I will go with CL to save my life of course, but for my own personal pleasure I will always prefer Scheme.

I am learning scheme(dr racket), which is i think derived from lisp, what is this actually used for and do people build anything with lisp???

Jonathan Blow: "It’s about a compiler written in Python FFS."