IMO the online resources for CL have improved greatly the last couple of years. I mean, common-lisp.net is looking nice, what a revolution!
And the resources and tooling in general have improved. People have less and less ground to bash CL :)
the stack is hard to setup? Portacle.
lack of an editor besides Emacs? There are good plugins for Atom (SLIMA), VSCode, Sublime Text, Jupyter Notebooks, Vim (of course), and there are more choices.
lack of GUI libraries? The Cookbook shows decent ones, though accordingly there is no Qt5 wrapper (but I hear it’s coming…)
lack of libraries? Awesome-cl at least helps the discovery, and py4cl is good.
CL is not typed? (I hear this and “CL is not a compiled language” once in the while) The Cookbook shows gradual typing.
Quicklisp’s monthly releases model is too slow? Ultralisp.
lack of a flagship software? I see three, ladies and gents: pgloader, ScoreCloud and Nyxt! (asides more technical and older ones, of course)
We saw 2 new CL books published in 2020, implementations are active, Google (I mean, Google, woaaa) still uses and hacks on SBCL, we saw four job announces in a month on reddit… something’s happening, smart guys should jump in!
Is anyone really using Portacle in 2020?
iirc it’s the recommended setup in the common lisp subreddit.
IMO the online resources for CL have improved greatly the last couple of years. I mean, common-lisp.net is looking nice, what a revolution!
And the resources and tooling in general have improved. People have less and less ground to bash CL :)
We saw 2 new CL books published in 2020, implementations are active, Google (I mean, Google, woaaa) still uses and hacks on SBCL, we saw four job announces in a month on reddit… something’s happening, smart guys should jump in!
There is a QT5 wrapper but it is specific to ECL: https://gitlab.com/eql/EQL5
Also there’s a nice blog to follow: http://40ants.com/lisp-project-of-the-day/