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ux266478yesterday at 2:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

Common Lisp through SBCL fits this for everything but changing GC strategies. I'm not sure why you'd do that, though. SBCL's generational GC is faster in all cases, easy to reason about, and trivial to pause.

In many of these other categories, clisp exceeds requirements. The REPL and Doc situation is so good it's honestly worth it for those alone. People put up with `):'(,@ soup for good reason.


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anonzzziesyesterday at 5:42 PM

I luckily have the freedom to work with SBCL almost fulltime. It is a joy; shame most will never get to experience it (few jobs, parenthophobia etc).

rootnod3yesterday at 4:50 PM

Common Lisp Is exactly that. I wish I could use it at work. All my personal stuff nowadays is CL only. There is no other choice.