It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp

Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by schemescape on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:02AM (#36888756)

I’ll take a look, thanks! My biggest concern with Scheme is that each implementation seems to have its own ecosystem due to subtle incompatibilities.

From an outsider’s perspective it seems a lot more fragmented than CL. Not necessarily a big deal if you have the libraries you want, but it gives me pause.

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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by bitwize on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:49AM (#36889862)

R7RS, which Gambit (mostly?) supports, helps mitigate this by making library code more portable across implementations. Gambit, in particular, can also very easily take advantage of the wide variety of C libraries; it has one of the easiest, most integrated FFIs of all Scheme implementations.

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