Armed Bear Common Lisp Alternatives

Armed Bear Common Lisp is described as '(ABCL) is a full implementation of the Common Lisp language featuring both an interpreter and a compiler, running in the JVM. Originally started to be a scripting language for the J editor, it now supports JSR-223 (Java scripting API): it can be a' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Armed Bear Common Lisp for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted. The best Armed Bear Common Lisp alternative is Hy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Armed Bear Common Lisp are MIT Scheme, Steel Bank Common Lisp, CMU Common Lisp and ManKai Common Lisp.

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  1. Hy icon
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    Hy is a wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python.

    Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into the Python Abstract Syntax Tree, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form!.

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    • Hy is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Armed Bear Common Lisp.

    • Hy is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Armed Bear Common Lisp.

    • Hy is Free and Open SourceArmed Bear Common Lisp is also Free and Open Source
  2. MIT Scheme icon
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    Implementation of Scheme providing an interpreter, compiler, source-code debugger, integrated Emacs-like editor, and a large run-time library.

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    • Free
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    Not common Lisp: it is scheme

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    • MIT Scheme is Free and Open SourceArmed Bear Common Lisp is also Free and Open Source
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    Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a high performance Common Lisp compiler. It is open source / free software, with a permissive license. In addition to the compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp, it provides an interactive environment including a debugger, a statistical...

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    • Free
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    CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It mainly conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard. CMUCL provides a sophisticated native code compiler; a powerful foreign function interface; an...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    ManKai Common Lisp (MKCL) aims to be a full implementation of the Common Lisp language in compliance with the ANSI X3J13 Common Lisp standard. It is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) with a few minor exceptions (see the...

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    • Free
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    • Windows
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  6. CLISP icon
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    CLISP is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation and development environment by Bruno Haible. Interpreter, compiler, debugger, CLOS, MOP, FFI, Unicode, sockets, CLX. UI in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and Danish.

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    • Free
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    Clozure CL (often called CCL for short) is a free Common Lisp implementation with a long history. Some distinguishing features of the implementation include fast compilation speed, native threads, a precise, generational, compacting garbage collector, and a convenient...

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    • Free
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    Allegro CL is the most powerful dynamic object-oriented development system available today, and is especially suited to enterprise-wide, complex application development. Complex applications with billions of objects are now made easy with Allegro CL 9.0.

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    GCL is the official Common Lisp for the GNU project. Its design makes use of the system's C compiler to compile to native object code, providing for both good performance and facile portability. GCL currently compiles itself and the primary free software Lisp applications...

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    • Free
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  10. LispWorks icon
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    LispWorks is a commercial implementation and IDE for the Common Lisp programming language.

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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  11. femtolisp icon
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    femtolisp is a simple, elegant Scheme dialect. It is a lisp-1 with lexical scope. The core is 12 builtin special forms and 33 builtin functions. It is fast, ranking among the fastest non-native-compiled Scheme implementations.

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    It is scheme, not common lisp

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    • femtolisp is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Armed Bear Common Lisp.

    • femtolisp is Free and Open SourceArmed Bear Common Lisp is also Free and Open Source
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