GNU Common Lisp Alternatives

GNU Common Lisp is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to GNU Common Lisp for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best GNU Common Lisp alternative is Hy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU Common Lisp are MIT Scheme, Steel Bank Common Lisp, CLISP and CMU Common Lisp.

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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...

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GNU Common Lisp alternatives page was last updated Jul 29, 2019
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  1. Hy icon
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    Hy

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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 Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Object-oriented Language
    3.  Interpreter
    4.  Clojure
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    • Hy is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to GNU Common Lisp.

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

    • Hy is Free and Open SourceGNU Common Lisp is also Free and Open Source
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    MIT Scheme

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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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    Steel Bank Common Lisp

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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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    Steel Bank Common Lisp Features

    1.  Debugging
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    CLISP

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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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    CLISP Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Multiple languages
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    CMU Common Lisp

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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
    • Linux
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  7. Armed Bear Common Lisp

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    Armed Bear Common Lisp (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...

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  9. ManKai Common Lisp

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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 • Open Source

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    • Windows
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    Nu

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    Nu is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, with a Lisp-like syntax, it was created as an alternative scripting language to program Mac OS X through its Cocoa API.

    4 Nu alternatives

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    • Mac
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    newLisp

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    newLISP is a LISP-like scripting language for doing things you typically do with scripting languages: programming for the internet, system administration, text processing, gluing other programs together, etc.

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    Allegro CL

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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.

    15 Allegro CL alternatives

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    Clozure Common Lisp

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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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    LispWorks

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    LispWorks is a commercial implementation and IDE for the Common Lisp programming language.

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