Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET

9 comments

• SomeHacker44 3 hours ago
  Awesome! Has a MonoGame integration sample. Am curious to see if it will work with Godot or Unity. New weekend project...
• d-us-vb 2 hours ago
  Dotcl sounds like a lisp macro that interprets TCL. :D
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  • jnpnj 1 hour ago
    hehe. alternatively dotnil would have sounded closer to dotnet while hinting at lisp terminology and history
• cjbgkagh 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?
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  • guenthert 53 minutes ago
    Yeah, pity that the early history seems to have been lost.
• v9v 2 hours ago
  There's also Bike for CL/.NET interop: https://github.com/Lovesan/bike
• aboardRat4 1 hour ago
  Does it have tail recursion?
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  • runevault 39 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 50 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.
• pjmlp 3 hours ago
  Great! A new toy on my toolbox.

  Kudos on the implementation.
• Pay08 2 hours ago
  I was just wondering the other day if this exists. Great timing.
• freedomben 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