Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by lars-b2018 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:27AM
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I use Common Lisp daily on macOS and Linux, but use SBCL and Emacs with Sly. Never tried out a commercial implementation so I cannot compare to Emacs and SBCL. Are they worth the money vs. the open source tools?
Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by mark_l_watson on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:09PM
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I use LispWorks proprietary UI library CAPI, otherwise all of my code is portable.
SBCL and Emacs are great, use them often, also.
Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by tachyonbeam on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:47PM
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How could they be worth it? Vendor lock-in has a huge cost IMO. You're going to have to keep paying for these insanely expensive licenses for years, maybe decades?
Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by pjmlp on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:44AM
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If one wants to use Lisp as the Lisp Machines/Interlisp-D allowed for, only the commercial versions offer such experience.
Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by nathell on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:02AM
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Out of curiosity, which commercial CL implementation would that be? LispWorks? Allegro?
Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by selectodude on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:05PM
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Must be LispWorks. Nothing else is anywhere near as expensive.
My own practical practice is to use both a very fine System76 Linux laptop and also a super fast, if constrained, M1 MacBook Pro. Depends on what I am doing, or sometimes just what I feel like using.
To be perfectly open though, I had considered switching to just using Linux until the M1 was released. The thing that held me back was spending $3500 on a commercial Common Lisp implementation 11 months ago. Going all in on Linux would have cost me more money.