News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why Lisp?. Parent comment

Re:Why Lisp? by WalterGR on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:16PM (#9507954)
Seconding the Clozure CL recommendation. It supports threads on Windows, which really expands your options if you want to do web development in Common Lisp.

I run Linux on my web servers but develop from a Windows desktop. CCL works great on both.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Lisp? by lisper on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:30PM (#9508062)
Thirding CCL :-) The built-in IDE and ObjC integration are awesome for developing on a Mac. And you can deploy finished code on Linux and Windows.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Lisp? by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:18PM (#9508746)
Fourthing CCL - it's stable on Windows and fast enough for writing games :).

Also, it's the best free CL for targeting Raspberry Pi - unlike SBCL, CCL supports native threads there, and with the weak but quad-core processor of RPi2, the difference is very noticeable.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Lisp? by orthecreedence on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:31PM (#9508069)
I have the same workflow. Develop on Windows, push to Linux (including apps that use FFI/threading). Never had a problem with CCL.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Lisp? by Grue3 on Friday May 08, 2015 @08:43AM (#9511252)
I'm surprised how many Windows-based CL devs there are. I am too, however I use SBCL and it works pretty well too, although I have stumbled upon strange Windows-only bugs with it.
[ Parent | on HN ]