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Why I Chose Common Lisp


Goodbye, Clojure After ~7 years, I was done with Clojure. I was writing a some CLI apps, and I hated how long they took to start up.

It must be easy to create standalone, fast-starting executables using a reasonable toolchain (to address my main concern with Clojure) I can't use Emacs, so it's got to be usable in Vim. The Common Lisp Cookbook, the CLiki, and Awesome CL provide nice survey of available libraries and techniques. Here are some answers to those particular libary queries I had: JSON: jzon Sqlite3: cl-sqlite HTTP requests: dexador Functional Datastructures: FSet, cl-hamt

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