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Wonderful to see SBCL getting frequent releases! Looks like they are on a monthly cadence.

Are there any "Why I chose to build my startup around SBCL" stories?

Grammarly used SBCL in production:

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...

It also sounds like they were very much a polyglot shop.

Here's a recent one, which leads to a couple more: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/ and to a (non official and growing) list of companies using CL: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/

The company that google bought for flights (ITA?) was built on SBCL and flights is still written in it. Pretty huge codebase from what I heard

If I remember correctly, Google even contributes to SBCL because of that.

Not SBCL, but HN is written in Arc (a Lisp).

Circle CI is apparently written in Clojure.

The first version of Reddit was written in Common Lisp, but less than a year later, they reluctantly migrated to Python because Python had a bigger library ecosystem:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160803061607/http://www.reddit...

I remember a more nuanced version:

- They tried using some commercial Lisp on a platform where it was poorly supported, and were struggling with certain stability issues (I don't remember the details).

- A team member came on board who, what do you know, had also authored the Python-based web framework that they were using in the rewrite. Reddit may have been used as the "guinea pig" for improving this web framework.

Sorry, I misremembered all that. It's hard to find the original information. One of the devs revealed that he was working OpenMCL on a Mac ... but then Reddit was actually running with CMUCL on FreeBSD. (Yes, really!) He couldn't basically even run all of Reddit in the dev environment.

(Regarding "commerical Lisp"; that's what some Lisp people were saying should have been given consideration.)

lisp startups are usually too busy doing unconventional things to advertise what they use. dunno why, just stating an observation

Kandria, Open world RPG: https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413

Discussed here:

Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine developed in Common Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026 - July 2022 (32 comments)

Some quantum computing companies use SBCL, specifically to build optimizing compilers [1], quantum computer control systems, and quantum simulators.

[1] https://chromotopy.org/latex/papers/quilc.pdf

I realize SBCL predates this folly, but I always regard things hosted on sourceforge with hesitancy after that sketchy ownership period.

I'm surprised so many projects stuck with it, especially since their VCS servers were so slow during that time, too.

Good opportunity to start learning this August.

Does SBCL compile binaries for Android/iOS ?

No, LispWorks does:http://www.lispworks.com/products/lw4mr.html and we have seen stuff done by ECL with Qt https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml

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