Hacker News Reader

What did you mean? Can't the user just download Portacle and use it?

Problem solved.

Right at the top of the article, the author outlines the requirement was that it must be usable within vim.

Not an issue for Common Lisp, you can use whatever you like, but interacting with a REPL gives you superpowers.

Not really. OP needs to build executables. It is documented here: https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/release-common-lisp-on-your-f...

Portacle ships SBCL so one can build executables when using Portacle.