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> These kind of comments _always_ pop up and are either terribly missing the point or written in bad faith.

As someone who loves coding in Lisp myself I assure you my comment is not written in bad faith. And I am not sure what point I am missing. I read the entire TFA from top to bottom and I liked it!

I genuinely want to see a list of projects (preferably open source) written in Lisp. That would help me to support my other arguments when I talk about Lisp with others who do not use Lisp. Thanks to the HN crowd, we have already received a good list of links and examples in the comments of this thread.

I am not sure why I need to be attacked personally for a genuine question.

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you shouldn't be attacked. i think its just that these type of questions do get asked a lot of time just to troll. i personally also think its a bad question because someone can give you a valid answer and you might not find the answer interesting. instead maybe it's better to ask something like:

Q: is there an interesting 3D graphics software being developed in Lisp? A: https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

Q: is there an interesting GUI project being developed in Lisp? A: https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog

Q: is there an interesting HPC project being developed in Lisp? A: https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp

Q: is there an interesting cryptography library being developed in Lisp? A: https://github.com/sharplispers/ironclad

see how different these domains are? its unlikely someone will find more than one of these projects interesting

Q: is there any game dev happening in Lisp? A: https://kandria.com/ and https://itch.io/jam/lisp-game-jam-2022

Q: how do I write a website with Lisp? A: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web.html#easy-rou... and https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Web-Exam...

Q: do I have to use emacs for developing Lisp? A: No, https://github.com/vlime/vlime and https://github.com/nobody-famous/alive

Q: is there a lisp with a more familiar standard library? A: https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/

Q: How can I write scripts with Lisp? A: See above or https://github.com/roswell/roswell#scripting-with-roswell

Q: it looks like Common Lisp doesn't support (software with a C library) but it needs to if I want to do it at work. A: https://github.com/rpav/cl-autowrap

Lisp and vim goes quite well. And you can even use Common Lisp in iOS.

Agree, I like vlime quite a lot

> I am looking for useful projects that do something useful for users who can't give a damn what language the project is written in.

Fair request.

As the instigator of the kons-9 graphics project, I had 2 primary reasons for using CL:

1) It is a language I find enjoyable to develop in. As I say, it is the only computer language I have used which doesn't fight me when I try to get things done.

2) I do hope the users of the system will care that it is written in CL, as I am attempting a language-based 3D system where the real flexibility and potential of the software will be available to those who are willing to develop tools and extensions in CL. More of an IDE and less of a typical GUI-based digital content creation system, of which there are plenty out there.

And a bonus point 3) I wanted to consciously do something different, which accepts the fact that Lisp is not the choice of least resistance. No one ever asks "Why JS?".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMzaVDaZP8

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