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What are the best open-source Common Lisp implementations for Windows?
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Best open-source Common Lisp implementations for Windows
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Steel Bank Common Lisp
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Aug 31, 2021
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Embeddable Common Lisp
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Jul 23, 2017
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Armed Bear Common Lisp
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Jul 23, 2017
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CLISP
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Oct 26, 2016
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GNU Common Lisp
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Jul 3, 2016
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Steel Bank Common Lisp
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Steel Bank Common Lisp
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Mostly public domain
With a few components under permissive license.
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Confusing error messages
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Fast native code compiler
SBCL (and CMUCL)'s compiler, Python, produces optimized native code.
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Produces large binaries
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Type inference and type checking
Incorrect type declarations are treated as errors. SBCL can deduce types quite well.
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Not stable on Windows
Especially for multithreaded code.
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Embeddable Common Lisp
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Embeddable
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Can't save the image
A lot of Common Lisp implementations provide a feature to dump all the current data available in a running Lisp process into a file, and then resume it later. ECL does not provide this feature.
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Armed Bear Common Lisp
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Armed Bear Common Lisp
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Run on the Java Virtual Machine
This makes it very portable and lets it use Java libraries, which is a big ecosystem.
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Requires the Java Virtual Machine
It's a second install step and not as fast as native code. If you've already got a JVM, why not use Clojure?
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CLISP
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CLISP
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Cross platform byte code
The CLISP bytecode is the same across platforms.
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Slowed maintenance
Maintenance of CLISP has slowed to a crawl over the past few years. There's some signs this will be picking up again, but this may take a while.
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Strong Copyleft
The runtime is under GPL.
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GNU Common Lisp
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Weak copyleft
LGPL
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Not fully ANSI compliant
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Corman Common Lisp
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Corman Common Lisp
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Corman Common Lisp
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Permissive license
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32-bit only
A modern language should support 64-bit programs.
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Clozure CL
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Clozure CL
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Clozure CL
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Apache 2.0 License
Recent versions have the more permissive Apache license.
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Frequently crashes on exit
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