Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET

SomeHacker44•about 3 hours ago

Awesome! Has a MonoGame integration sample. Am curious to see if it will work with Godot or Unity. New weekend project...

cjbgkagh•about 1 hour ago

Neat, I see AOT, will this be able to target WASM? I’m guessing there will be a mode that doesn’t use reflection emit since AOT doesn’t support that? I would check myself but I’m away from my computer.

Rochus•1 day ago

This is amazing. How long did it take you to implement it, i.e. reach that high level of Ansi test conformance? Have you been able to reuse concepts e.g. from ABCL?

guenthert•27 minutes ago

Yeah, pity that the early history seems to have been lost.

d-us-vb•about 2 hours ago

Dotcl sounds like a lisp macro that interprets TCL. :D

jnpnj•about 1 hour ago

hehe. alternatively dotnil would have sounded closer to dotnet while hinting at lisp terminology and history

v9v•about 2 hours ago

There's also Bike for CL/.NET interop: https://github.com/Lovesan/bike

aboardRat4•42 minutes ago

Does it have tail recursion?

runevault•14 minutes ago

If nothing else dotnet has TCO IL operations (C# doesn't compile down to them last I knew but F# does) so in theory shouldn't be hard to add.

guenthert•25 minutes ago

I'm pretty sure it does. I would even think that it tries to optimize such, as a recent check-in comment claims improvements of TCO.

freedomben•about 3 hours ago

Unfortunate near naming collision for people using doctl (the Digital Ocean CLI). I can foresee a lot of shell muscle memory causing me to use the wrong tool :-D

Really cool project! Love seeing CL work it's way into as many envs as possible

pjmlp•about 3 hours ago

Great! A new toy on my toolbox.

Kudos on the implementation.

Pay08•about 2 hours ago

I was just wondering the other day if this exists. Great timing.

Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET

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