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Re:A Lisp REPL as my main shell by ssivark on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:20AM (#26061988)
It’s interesting to note that while no single idea is revolutionary, the design choices in putting together this bunch make for a particularly slick interface where the whole is much better than the usual shell.

PS: I look forward to trying this out! Since I don’t know much Common Lisp, are there particularly useful libraries that would make it easy to cover functionality commonly used through the shell? I’d love to see a tutorial with a compilation of examples. EDIT: Found some useful stuff in the CL cookbook (Eg. section on files & directories) https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/

Re:A Lisp REPL as my main shell by Ambrevar on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:48AM (#26087628)
The article presents a few libraries. There is https://github.com/ruricolist/cmd in particular which is very helpful.

I'm going to publish a few more libraries which should help with file manipulation (as I demoed it).

Stay tuned!

Re:A Lisp REPL as my main shell by nerdponx on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:48PM (#26070630)
UIOP and Alexandria are very common. The former has a lot of functionality that you would normally expect out of a shell.