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Lisp: Icing or Cake?
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games.
Implementations like SBCL have good C FFIs and can compile efficient native executables, minimizing the desire to use some C for performance reasons. Chickadee wraps some C libraries for low-level tasks such as loading images, audio, and fonts, but it is written in pure Scheme. There’s also projects like Pre-Scheme that give me hope that one day the layers below the managed GC runtime can be implemented in Lisp.
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