curated-awesome-cl

Ready and up to date documentation for all Common Lisp projects

A portable and multiplatform Common Lisp environment: SBCL, Quicklisp, Emacs, Slime, Git

SLIME

Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs; a full-blown environment for Common Lisp inside of Emacs. Public domain

SLIMV

Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim; a full-blown environment for Common Lisp inside of Vim. No license specified

SLIMA

allows you to interactively develop Common Lisp code, helping turn Atom into a full-featured Lisp IDE.

alive

Common Lisp Extension for VSCode. Public domain

see the Cookbook:

cl-jupyter

A Common Lisp kernel for Jupyter notebooks

cl-repl

an ipython-like REPL. With completion, shell commands, magic commands, debugger, etc. . With

sbcli

a simple readline REPL that doesn't get in your way. It doesn't have a debugger, it just prints the error. With optional syntax highlighting and useful shortcuts

A fork of CMUCL; compiles to machine code. . Public domain, with some parts under and

, for its fast compilation time, and to use on 32bits Raspberry Pi

it's the de-facto build system shipped with the implementations

library manager

A quicklisp distribution that builds every five minutes (instead of one month for Quicklisp), and requires 3 clicks to add your project to it (instead of opening an issue and waiting for Quicklisp)

Roswell

A Lisp implementation installer, script launcher and more

qlot

A project-local library installer, similar to Bundler or Carton

cl-cookieproject

my project skeleton, more complete than the others

quicksearch

Look up online libraries from the REPL.

Dexador

An HTTP client:

Hunchentoot documentation on a "read the docs" style:

easy-routes

👍 - a routes handling system on top of Hunchentoot. It supports dispatch based on HTTP method, arguments extraction from the url path, decorators, url generation from route name, etc

Caveman

A powerful web framework

Wookie

Asynchronous HTTP server.

Snooze

A RESTful web framework, built on Clack, where routes are just functions and HTTP conditions are just Lisp conditions.

radiance

An extensible framework library and multi-application CMS

cl-rest-server

a library for writing REST web APIs. Features validation with schemas, annotations for logging, caching, permissions or authentication, documentation via Swagger, etc.

Weblocks

A widgets-based framework with a built-in ajax update mechanism that "solves the JavaScript problem".

the CL web server

Clack

A web application environment inspired by Rack and WSGI

wookie

Asynchronous HTTP server.

woo

A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev.

clack-errors

Error page middleware for Clack.

hermetic

Security for Clack-based web applications.

Plump

A lenient HTTP/XML parser, tolerand on malformed markup. . Best used with and

lquery

A jQuery-like HTML/DOM manipulation library.

Djula

A port of Django's template engine to Common Lisp

Ten

by Djula's maintainer, a more flexible framework, where we can write lisp expressions in templates

spinneret

Common Lisp HTML5 generator

cl-markup

Modern markup generation library.

quri

Another URI library for Common Lisp. Supports userinfo, IPv6 hostname, encoding/decoding utilities,…

cl-slug

a small library to make slugs, mainly for URIs, transform in CamelCase, remove accentuation and punctuation, for english and beyound

Parenscript

A translator from Common Lisp to Javascript.

A package for parsing ECMAScript 3.

JSCL

A CL-to-JS compiler designed to be self-hosting from day one. Lacks CLOS, format and loop

sigil

A Parenscript to Javascript command line compiler and REPL.

Aws-sign4

Common Lisp library for Amazon Web Services signing version 4.

The successor to the South (Simple OaUTH) library, implementing the full oAuth 1.0a protocol, both client and server sides. Using North you can easily become an oAuth provider or consumer.

avatar-api

Get avatars from Google+, Gravatar and others.

chirp

A Twitter client library.

An IRC client library.

An implementation of OpenID.

cl-pushover

Common Lisp bindings to Pushover.

cl-ses

Library for AWS SES.

humbler

A Tumblr API interface.

XML parser, with a range of extension libraries.

Plump

A lenient HTTP/XML parser, tolerand on malformed markup. . Best used with and

A basic parser.

A small, simple, non-validating XML parser.

jonathan

A JSON encoder and decoder.

cl-csv

A library for parsing CSV files

mito

An ORM for Common Lisp with migrations, schema versioning, relationships, PostgreSQL support

A library for interacting with PostgreSQL

py4cl

A library that allows Common Lisp code to access Python libraries. It is basically the inverse of cl4py.

cl4py

The library cl4py (pronounce as clappy) allows Python programs to call Common Lisp libraries.

cl-cairo2

Cairo bindings

A library providing an interface to the GD graphics library.

cl-opengl

CFFI bindings to OpenGL, GLU and GLUT APIs.

cl-sdl2

Bindings for SDL2 using C2FFI.

A basic library for producing SVG files.

[CLinch][63] - Common Lisp 2D/3D graphics engine for OpenGL.

donuts

Graph drawing DSL for Common Lisp.

lispbuilder-sdl

A set of bindings for SDL.

Simple vector drawing library.

A library for creating PNG files.

A binding for the Tk toolkit. or

Bindings for the Tk toolkit, based on Ltk, with syntax sugar and additional widgets

IUP

CFFI bindings to the Portable User Interface library (pre-ALPHA). IUP is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, with new Android, iOs, Cocoa and Web Assembly drivers), has many widgets, has a small api and is actively developed

Qtools

A Qt4 toolkit, based on CommonQt

Desktop web apps with Common Lisp.

Electron-lisp-boilerplate

A rudimentary boilerplate for building Electron apps with embedded Lisp helper processes

electron-sbcl-sqlite

Electron app skeleton:

A portable GUI toolkit, with mobile runtime. Proprietary, but comes with a free version

cl-spark

Generates sparkline strings for lists of numbers.

GNU Scientific Library for Lisp; allows the use of the GSL from Common Lisp.

an environment for statistical computing, conceptually similar to R, that is also suitable for front-line production deployments. "It grew out of a desire to have an environment for rapidly prototyping analytical and A.I. solutions, and move directly to production environments with minimal friction."

ships Luke Tierney's (a predecessor of R) as well as newer libraries

common-lisp-stat

Common Lisp statistics library.

lisp-matrix

A matrix package.

Computer algebra system. Not available on Quicklisp.

Portable, shared-state concurrency.

lparallel

A library for parallel programming.

lfarm

distributing work across machines (on top of lparallel and usocket)

cl-async

A library for general-purpose, non-blocking programming, built on (the library that powers Nodejs).

chanl

Portable, channel-based concurrency. , with parts under

Moira

Monitor and restart background threads. In-lisp process supervisor.

- a Common Lisp library offering a way of spawning threads and being informed when one any of them crash and die.

cl-gearman

a library for the distributed job system.

swank-crew

distributed computation framework implemented using Swank Client.

cl-coroutine

a coroutine library. It uses the CL-CONT continuations library in its implementation.

STMX

High performance Transactional Memory for Common Lisp.

cl-gserver

an Erlang inspired GenServer. It is meant to encapsulate state, but also to execute async operations. Also with actors. Functionality regarding state is not unsimilar to Clojure's Agent or cl-actors.

simple-tasks

A very simple task scheduling framework.

deeds

Deeds is an Extensible Event Delivery System. It allows for efficient event delivery to multiple handlers with a complex event filtering system.

cl-flow

Data-flowish computation tree library for non-blocking concurrent Common Lisp.

event-glue

simple eventing abstraction. No dependencies. It can be used anywhere you need a generic event handling system.

, system-wide event schedulers

cl-cron

A simple tool that provides cron like facilities

clerk

a cron-like scheduler with sane DSL.

Portable, Perl-compatible regular expressions.

one-more-re-nightmare

a fast-ish regular expression compiler in Common Lisp.

FiveAM

Simple regression testing framework

A small stubbing and mocking library for Common Lisp. Can also check wether a stubbed function was called, how many times and with which arguments.

Check-it

A QuickCheck-style randomized property-based testing.

cl-coveralls

a helper library to post test coverage to Coveralls. See and .

a tutorial

Travis CI: we can use Roswell on Travis CI: see (cl-travis doesn't work with Travi's Docker based architecture)

Gitlab CI:

A general-purpose utility library

serapeum

Another general-purpose utility library

rutils

radical yet reasonable syntactic utilities for Common Lisp

trivia

Optimized pattern-matching library.

generic-cl

Generic function interface to standard Common Lisp functions (equality, comparison, arithmetic, objects, iterator, sequences,…). . See also the more lightweight .

A functional, set-theoretic collections data structure library.

trivial-types

Trivial type definitions.

A library for defining algebraic data types in a similar spirit to Haskell or ML.

pythonic-string-reader

A simple and unobtrusive read table modification inspired by Python's three quote strings.

cl-reader

A utility library intended at providing reader macros for lambdas, mapping, accessors, hash-tables and hash-sets.

An iteration construct for Common Lisp which is extensible and Lispier.

A concise, lispy and extensible iteration macro. Unlike loop it is extensible and sensible, and unlike iterate it does not require code-walking and is easier to extend

trivial-do

Additional dolist style macros for Common Lisp.

– another extensible iteration library, similar to :for

picl

An (almost) complete port of Python's itertools package, complete with laziness where applicable, and not relying on cl-cont.

A lazy sequences library. Similar to 'series' but not as complete. However it has a 'modern' API with stuff like , , , , etc. that is easy to use

fn

a couple of lambda shorthand macros. . Public domain

a tiny library of functional programming utils. . Public domain

cl-punch

Scala-like anonymous lambda literals. .

iolib

I/O library.

fast-io

Fast octet-vector/stream I/O.

A small library for doing UTF-8-based I/O. Not available on Quicklisp. No license specified

ratify

A collection of utilities to ratify, validate and parse inputs.

clavier

General purpose validation library for Common Lisp.

json-schema

A library for validating data against schemas of drafts 4, 6, 7, and 2019-09 of the standard.

sanity-clause

a data serialization/contract library for Common Lisp. Schemas can be property lists or class-based, allowing to check slots' types during .

A development library for manipulating date and time information in a semi-standard manner.

cl-date-time-parser

Parse date-time-string, liberally. Hides the difference between date-time formats, and enables to manage date and time as the one date-time format.

chronicity

A natural language date and time parse, to parse strings like "3 days from now".

local-time-duration

- Duration processing library built on top of local-time.

Miscellaneous date routines in Common Lisp, based around the ISO 8601 string representation.

calendar-date

a Gregorian calendar date library.

periods

manipulating date/time objects at a higher level. With series-compatible data structure.

log4cl

Logging framework modelled after Log4J

A library of crypto functions for Common Lisp. Not considered secure, but is still useful for the message digest functions.

crypto-shortcuts

Collection of common crypto shortcuts.

📹 ⭐

Small Common Lisp tutorial covering the essentials

A good introductory text to Common Lisp, with practical examples

A nice introduction into the language

A good set of introductory tutorials; includes interactive examples

Common Lisp Koans

The project guides the learner progressively through many Common Lisp language features

Common Lisp tips

A collaborative resource with useful tips and tricks

📹 , a video course tutorial on the Udemy platform, by me (@vindarel) (CL Cookbook, lisp-journey) ( , some free videos)

A book on advanced macro techniques. The first six chapters are available online

Paul Graham's amazing book on Lisp macros (and other interesting things)

A distilled, pocket-size version of the ANSI CL spec. Available for download as a PDF

The Common Lisp HyperSpec; the ANSI CL standard, in hypertext form

The original standard for Common Lisp before the ANSI spec

A friendlier, but less-complete, version of CLHS. Also contains documentation for some commonly-used CL libraries (such as Alexandria)

A reference for the libraries provided by Quicklisp

A fun, game-oriented introduction to Common Lisp

A good introductory text to Common Lisp, with practical examples

Common Lisp Koans

The project guides the learner progressively through many Common Lisp language features

A thorough, practical covering of the entire language, with exercises. Not recommended as a starter text, due to

A book on advanced macro techniques. All eight chapters are available in the print copy

An old, but very thorough book on CLOS

A book on programming AI that covers some advanced Lisp