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Nov 25, 2022

Others / Third-party APIs

Ciao (⭐4) - an easy-to-use Common Lisp OAuth 2.0 client library. It is a port of the Racket OAuth 2.0 Client to Common Lisp. LGPL3.

Nov 23, 2022

Miscellaneous

Xelf - Extensible game library. Not available on Quicklisp. GNU LGPL2.1.

Iteration

series - Functional style without any runtime penalty at all. MIT.

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

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

Valtan (⭐206) - Common Lisp to JavaScript compiler.

JACL - an experimental Lisp system for the Web browser platform to explore new techniques for developing large Single Page Applications with Lisp.

Others / Email

sendgrid (⭐12) - send emails with Sendgrid's API. MIT.

Actors pattern / Third-party APIs

👍 Sento (⭐122) - Sento (formerly cl-gserver) is a 'message passing' library/framework with actors similar to Erlang or Akka. It supports creating systems that should work reactive, require parallel computing and event based message handling. Apache2.

Caching / Third-party APIs

function-cache (⭐43) - A Common Lisp function caching / memoization library. BSD.

Nov 17, 2022

Clojure

Cloture (⭐334) - Clojure in Common Lisp.

cl-oju (⭐12) - a few idioms, mostly relating to sequences, that I miss when writing Common Lisp. MIT.

clj-con (⭐16) - Clojure-style concurrency operations in Common Lisp. MIT.

clj-re (⭐6) - Clojure-style regular expression functions.

Typing

typo (⭐16) - A portable type inference library for Common Lisp. MIT.

Others / OpenAPI, OData, OpenRPC

OpenRPC (⭐17) - OpenRPC implementation for Common Lisp. BSD.
- Automatic OpenRPC spec generation
- Automatic JSON-RPC client building by OpenRPC spec. This includes creation of Common Lisp classes and methods for making RPC requests and returning native CL objects.
- all JSON marshalling is done under the hood.

Apps / Third-party APIs

trivial-sanitize - clean html strings: "foo" → "foo". LLGPL.

testieren - a testing utility where tests are included at the top of a defun/t form. They are run when you recompile your functions interactively. With mocking and stubbing support. GPL3.

Macro helpers / Third-party APIs

easy-macros (⭐11) - an easy way to write 90% of your macros. Apache2.0.

Nov 02, 2022

Wrappers

cl-ndbapi (⭐11) - bindings to the C++ NDB API of RonDB, "the world's fastest key value store", by Dydra. GPLv2.

Oct 24, 2022

Others / Third-party APIs

lisp-pay (⭐19) - Wrappers around various payment processors: Paypal, Stripe, Coinpayments and BTCPayServer. MIT.

lunamech-matrix-api (⭐5) - A complete wrapper over the Client -> Server Matrix API. MIT.

Oct 22, 2022

Notebooks / Third-party APIs

common-lisp-jupyter (⭐164) - A Common Lisp kernel for Jupyter along with a library for building Jupyter kernels, based on Maxima-Jupyter by Robert Dodier which was based on cl-jupyter by Frederic Peschanski. MIT.
- jupyterlab-debugger-restarts (⭐2) - restart functionality for the JupyterLab debugger.
- Cytoscape widget (⭐0) - Cytoscape.js widget for common-lisp-jupyter.
- Kekule widget (⭐1) - Kekule.js widget for common-lisp-jupyter.
- molecule viewer (⭐0) - A molecule viewer for JupyterLab using ngl.
- ngl widget (⭐0) - A ngl widget (protein viewer) for common-lisp-jupyter.
- sheet widget (⭐1) - Data grid widget for common-lisp-jupyter.

cl-jupyter (⭐198) - A Common Lisp kernel for Jupyter notebooks custom licence (⭐198).

Oct 06, 2022

Mobile

GNU CLISP - A GNU implementation; contains a compiler and an interpreter. Standard conformance. GNU GPL3. They develop [https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp](on Gitlab).

Sep 24, 2022

Others / OpenAPI, OData, OpenRPC

apispec (⭐27) - A Common Lisp library for handling Web API requests and responses. BSD_3Clause.
- takes an OpenAPI3 yaml specification and allows to validate and parse HTTP request headers, parameters and bodies.

Sep 19, 2022

Miscellaneous

🆕 cl-gtk4 (⭐108) - GTK4/Libadwaita/WebKit binding for Common Lisp. LGPL3.

Sep 07, 2022

Files and directories / Third-party APIs

file-notify (⭐19) - a cross-platform library for file change detection. zlib.

Sep 02, 2022

Miscellaneous

ceramic - Desktop web apps with Electron. Expat.
- Electron-lisp-boilerplate (⭐5) - A rudimentary boilerplate for building Electron apps with embedded Lisp helper processes.
- Electron app skeleton: electron-sbcl-sqlite (⭐26)
- NOTE: the main idea in embedding a lisp web app in Electron is to start the lisp webserver as an async process and to point the Electron window to the localhost URL. That's it.

Aug 22, 2022

Coding platforms

Codewars - a code training platform, with Common Lisp support (SBCL).

HTML generators and templates / Isomorphic web frameworks

⭐ Djula (⭐127) - A port of Django's template engine to Common Lisp. Expat.
- cl-djula-tailwind (⭐6) - use TailwindCSS classe in your Djula templates without any JavaScript or Node.js tooling.

Apps / Third-party APIs

Resolve (⭐29) - A software for AST-based diff calculation, display, and automated resolution. Written in C++ and CL, you'll find Lisp utilities.

Aug 02, 2022

Others / Third-party APIs

maxima - Computer algebra system. Not available on Quicklisp. GNU GPL3.
- also Maxima on Android, built with ECL.

Documentation builders / Third-party APIs

cl-livedocs (⭐1) - similar and newer, based on Webinfo, with full text search enabled by default.

Git / Third-party APIs

cl-git (⭐52) - a CFFI interface to the libgit2 library. LGPL3.

Jul 30, 2022

Websockets / Isomorphic web frameworks

clws (⭐72) - websockets server in CL, built on IOlib and libfixposix. No licence specified.

Hunchensocket (⭐100) - RFC6455 compliant WebSockets for Common Lisp, as an extension to Hunchentoot. MIT.

websocket-driver (⭐87) - based on Clack.

Jul 18, 2022

Changing the syntax

clamp (⭐68) - Arc language's brevity and conciseness to Common Lisp. Artistic License 2.0.
- also arc-compat (⭐9) - Arc compatible package. Perl Foundation's Artistic Licence 2.0.

Websockets / Isomorphic web frameworks

Portal (⭐23) - Portable websockets for Common Lisp, using usocket. LLGPL.

Jul 17, 2022

Function extensions

nhooks (⭐12) - an enhanced implementation of hooks (extension points) with crucial improvements.

Jul 15, 2022

ORMs

👍 mito (⭐230) - An ORM for Common Lisp with migrations, relationships and PostgreSQL support LLGPL.
- mitho-auth (⭐17), a mixin class for use authorization
- mito-attachment (⭐11), a mixin class for file management outside of RDBMS.

Websockets / Isomorphic web frameworks

👍 usocket (⭐180) - A portable TCP and UDP socket interface. Expat.

Web development utilities / Assets management

Rock (⭐44) - an asset manager for Common Lisp. It's basically a combination of Bower and webassets. MIT.

Web development utilities / Browser tests

cl-webdriver-client (⭐15) - a binding library to WebDriver (supports Selenium 4.0).

Web development utilities / Form handling

👍 cl-forms (⭐35) - Web forms handling library for Common lisp. MIT.

Web development utilities / User login and password management

cl-authentic (⭐4) - Password management for Common Lisp (web) applications. LLGPL.
- safe password storage: cleartext-free, using your choice of hash algorithm through ironclad, storage in an SQL database,
- password reset mechanism with one-time tokens (suitable for mailing to users for confirmation),
- user creation optionally with confirmation tokens (suitable for mailing to users),

mito-email-auth (⭐3) - Helper to authenticate a website's users by sending them unique code by email.

Others / Email

trivial-imap (⭐2) - tries to make easy some common cases of working with IMAP servers, like reading emails from the server. A thin wrapper over post-office library (which is a fork of Franz's cl-imap). BSD.

mailgun (⭐10) - A thin wrapper to post HTML emails through mailgun.com. unlicence.

cl-smtp - CL-SMTP is a simple lisp smtp client.

Others / Static site generators

coleslaw (⭐520) and its coleslaw-cli (⭐6) - Flexible Lisp Blogware similar to Frog, Jekyll, or Hakyll. BSD.

Others / Third-party APIs

Aws-sign4 (⭐17) - Common Lisp library for Amazon Web Services signing version 4. GNU GPL3.

zs3 (⭐36) - A library for working with Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and CloudFront service. BSD.

cl-ses (⭐14) - Library for AWS SES. Expat.

north - 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. zlib.

avatar-api (⭐9) - Get avatars from Google+, Gravatar and others. Expat.

chirp (⭐69) - A Twitter client library. zlib.

tooter (⭐22) - a client library implementing the full v1 REST API protocol for Mastodon. zlib.

cl-irc - An IRC client library. Expat.

cl-mediawiki (⭐17) - a wrapper around the MediaWiki api. MIT.

cl-openid (⭐3) - An implementation of OpenID. LLGPL.

cl-pushover (⭐2) - Common Lisp bindings to Pushover. MIT.

humbler (⭐10) - A Tumblr API interface. zlib.

multiposter (⭐8) - post to multiple services simultaneously. zlib.

stripe - a client for the Stripe payment system. MIT.

Jul 14, 2022

Persistent object databases

cl-naive-store - a naive persisted, in memory (lazy loading), indexed, document store for Common Lisp. MIT.
- see the introductory blog post
- dare we add: used in production by the author's company (ASTN Group, see awesome-lisp-companies)

Graph databases

facts (⭐54) - an in-memory graph database with transactions and rollbacks, logging/replay and dumping/loading to/from disk. BSD-style license (ISC).

Git / Third-party APIs

git-api (⭐19) - Common Lisp library to access a git repository. It doesn't need git or libgit installed. BSD.

Jul 11, 2022

Mobile

⭐ SBCL - Steel Bank Common Lisp. A fork of CMUCL; compiles to machine code. Standard compliance. Public domain, with some parts under Expat and 3-clause BSD.
- see also: sbcl-librarian (⭐58) - Dynamic library delivery tools for SBCL. Create shared libraries that can be called from C or Python. MIT. Blog post. Full example (⭐58).

Changing the syntax

⭐ cl-interpol (⭐46) - A set of reader modifications to allow string interpolation. BSD.

mstrings - a reader macro to provide visually appealing multiline blocks. An M-string trims leading whitespace, concatenates lines together, etc. BSD_3Clause.

pythonic-string-reader (⭐14) - A simple and unobtrusive read table modification inspired by Python's three quote strings. BSD_3Clause.

cl-heredoc (⭐10) - a "heredocs" (⭐10) dispatcher. GPL3. Allows to write: #>eof>Write whatever (you) "want", no matter what characters, until the magic end sequence has been reached.eof

HTTP Servers / Hunchentoot plugins

cl-tbnl-gserver-tmgr (⭐13) - Hunchentoot Gserver-based taskmanager. cl-gserver is an actor-like message-passing library (see below in "Actors pattern"). Experimental.

Jul 09, 2022

C, C++

bp (⭐27) - Bitcoin Protocol components in Common Lisp. MIT.

Jun 18, 2022

HTTP Servers / Clack plugins

tiny-routes (⭐7) - A tiny routing library for Common Lisp targeting Clack. BSD_3Clause.

Jun 06, 2022

C, C++

⭐ Ironclad (⭐131) - A library of crypto functions for Common Lisp. Not considered secure, but is still useful for the message digest functions. Expat.

ORMs

⭐ clsql - An SQL database with a Common Lisp interface. LLGPL.

Wrappers

⭐ postmodern - A library for interacting with PostgreSQL. zlib.

C

⭐ CFFI (⭐365) - Portable, easy-to-use C foreign function interface. Expat.

Miscellaneous

⭐ Sketch (⭐1.2k) - A CL framework for the creation of electronic art, graphics, and lots more. MIT.

⭐ CommonQt (⭐108) - A Common Lisp binding for Qt4 via QtSmoke. FreeBSD.

Mobile

⭐ CCL - Clozure Common Lisp; compiler-only implementation, generates native code. LLGPL.

⭐ alexandria - A general-purpose utility library. Public domain.

⭐ trivia (⭐260) - Optimized pattern-matching library. LLGPL.

CLOS extensions

⭐ closer-mop - A compatibility layer that rectifies many absent or incorrect MOP features. Expat.

Iteration

⭐ iterate - An iteration construct for Common Lisp which is extensible and Lispier. MIT.

Community

⭐ Quicklisp - A library manager containing many libraries, with easy depencency management. Expat.

HTTP Servers / Interfaces to other package managers

⭐ Hunchentoot - A web server. 2-clause BSD

HTML generators and templates / Isomorphic web frameworks

⭐ cl-who - The venerable HTML generator. FreeBSD.

Utils / Third-party APIs

⭐ BordeauxThreads - Portable, shared-state concurrency. Expat.

⭐ lparallel (⭐223) - A library for parallel programming. 3-clause BSD.

Job processing / Third-party APIs

⭐ cl-ppcre - Portable, Perl-compatible regular expressions. FreeBSD.

Emacs / Third-party APIs

⭐ Slime (⭐1.7k) - Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs; a full-blown environment for Common Lisp inside of Emacs. Public domain.

Apps / Third-party APIs

⭐ esrap (⭐61) - Packrat parser. Expat.

⭐ FiveAM (⭐160) - Simple regression testing framework. FreeBSD.
- fiveam-matchers (⭐5) - an extensible, composable matchers library for fiveam. Apache2.0.

Caching / Third-party APIs

clache (⭐10) - General caching facility. Cache any Lisp object on disk or in memory. A cache can be persistent or have an expiration time. LLGPL.

CSV / Third-party APIs

⭐ cl-csv (⭐102) - A library for parsing CSV files. 3-clause BSD.

Date and time / Third-party APIs

⭐ local-time - A development library for manipulating date and time information in a semi-standard manner. 3-clause BSD.

Documentation builders / Third-party APIs

mgl-pax (⭐49) - Exploratory programming environment and documentation generator. one may accomplish similar effects as with Literate Programming, but documentation is generated from code, not vice versa. Code is first, code must look pretty, documentation is code. MIT.
- see this 40ants fork (⭐10) for: a lighter core system, a JavaScript search index, multiple format output, HTML themes, RSS and Atom feed for the Changelog and more.

Declt (⭐33) - Reference manual generator for Common Lisp libraries. Builds a texinfo document that can be further processed into various formats, such as HTML or PDF. BSD.

Codex (⭐81) - A beautiful documentation system for Common Lisp. MIT.

QBook (⭐5) - generates HTML (or LaTeX) formatted code listings of Common Lisp source files. BSD_3Clause.
- all comments started with 4 ; (";;;;") are interpreted as documentation. Enhance the documentation with headings and directives.
- QBook acts as "a lightweight literate programming system, where Lisp code is not rendered inline, but in separate sections, and that makes the document more pleasant to navigate." @mmontone

sphinxcontrib-cldomain (⭐13) - Extending Sphinx to cover Common Lisp. To build documentation with the same ease as sphinx would a Python project. GPL3

cl-bibtex (⭐23) - A compatible re-implementation of the BibTeX program in Common Lisp, with a BST-to-CL compiler. GNU LGPL2.1.

docbrowser (⭐13) - a server that generates documentation for the loaded systems on the fly.
- Its main page presents a list of all loaded systems in your Lisp image. Click on one system, and you get a page with three panes: functions, classes and variables. Click on a function to see its source, in context, with line numbers. Click on classes to see their slots and specializing functions.

Literate programming / Third-party APIs

literate-lisp (⭐45) - Load Common Lisp code blocks from Emacs' Org files. MIT.

erudite (⭐56) - Literate Programming System built with interactive development in mind. MIT.

Other / Third-party APIs

absolute de-facto libraries, like BordeauxThreads or Quicklisp, should be denoted with a ⭐ (Unicode code U+2B50).

Jun 02, 2022

Miscellaneous

⭐ ltk - A binding for the Tk toolkit. LLGPL or GNU LGPL2.1.
- LTk Examples - Provides LTk examples for the tkdocs tutorial.
- LTk Plotchart - A wrapper around the tklib/plotchart library to work with LTk. This includes over 20 different chart types (xy-plots, gantt charts, 3d-bar charts etc...).
- nodgui - Bindings for the Tk toolkit, based on Ltk, with syntax sugar and additional widgets. LLGPL.

vk (⭐28) - Common Lisp/CFFI bindings for the Vulkan API. MIT.

Lem / Third-party APIs

Lem (⭐1.3k) - a ready to use, Emacs-like, Slime-based editor tailored for Common Lisp development out of the box, as well as other programming languages. With ncurses and Electron interfaces. MIT. See also: an opengl frontend (⭐34), Lem in Docker (⭐4), lem-pareto (⭐16).

May 22, 2022

Matrix libraries / Third-party APIs

magicl (⭐203) - Matrix Algebra proGrams In Common Lisp based on BLAS/LAPACK and Expokit, by Rigetti Computing. BSD_3Clause.

May 18, 2022

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

sigil (⭐2) - A Parenscript to Javascript command line compiler and REPL. MIT.

cl-react (⭐64) - Common Lisp (Parenscript) utilities for building web apps in ReactJs. MIT.

Panic (⭐42), a Parenscript library for React. Not in Quicklisp. MIT. Its TodoMVC example (⭐7).

Parenscriptx (⭐23) - Parenscript Macros to aid generating react code. MIT.

jscl-react (⭐17) - A web framework for writing react components in common lisp using jscl. No license specified.

XML / Third-party APIs

CXML - XML parser and serializer, with a range of extension libraries. LLGPL.
- 👍 has an incremental parser, allowing to parse big files.
- see the FXML (⭐23) fork, with fixes and new features. You should use it if your are parsing potentially ill-formed or malicious XML, or if you need to use Klacks with namespaces.

May 05, 2022

Mobile

CMUCL - An implementation from Carnegie Mellon University. Public domain. SBCL is a fork of CMUCL.

Corman Lisp (⭐571) - a Common Lisp development environment for Microsoft Windows running on Intel platforms. MIT.

Deployment / Isomorphic web frameworks

Platform.sh has Common Lisp support, so has OVH through their Web PaaS partnership.

Apr 19, 2022

Miscellaneous

file-select (⭐12) - A library to invoke the native system file dialog to select or create files. Zlib.

XML / Third-party APIs

Plump (⭐104) - A lenient XML parser. zlib.

xpath (⭐5) (homepage - Implementation of the XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0. BSD_2Clause.

s-xml - A basic parser. LLGPL.

xmls (⭐15) - A small, simple, non-validating XML parser. 3-clause BSD.

cl-feedparser (⭐25) - A Common Lisp (RSS, Atom) feed parser. LLGPL

Buildnode (⭐18) - A common lisp library to ease interaction with CXML-dom, such as building Excel spreadsheets. BSD.

Emacs / Third-party APIs

slime-star (⭐12) - a SLIME configuration with extensions pre-installed, with also some custom utilities and menus:
- the Lisp system browser
- SLIME doc contrib (⭐16) - enhance the default help buffer.
- Quicklisp systems (⭐28) - Search, browse and load Quicklisp systems from Emacs.
- Quicksearch (⭐45)
- Slime breakpoints (⭐5)
- Slite (⭐41) - a test runner for FiveAM.

Mar 23, 2022

i18n / Third-party APIs

translate (⭐7) - seamless language localization. LLGPL.

Mar 11, 2022

Miscellaneous

Allegro's Common Graphics- a library of functions for writing windowized GUIs for Windows, Mac and Linux. Proprietary with a free version.
- since Allegro 10.1 (March, 2022), the IDE and the Common Graphics toolkit runs in the browser.

Mar 09, 2022

Web frameworks / Isomorphic web frameworks

Weblocks (⭐20) - A widgets-based framework with a built-in ajax update mechanism that "solves the JavaScript problem". LLGPL.

Mar 02, 2022

Web frameworks / Clack plugins

radiance (⭐267) - A web application environment and framework . zlib.

👍 Snooze (⭐175) - A RESTful web framework. Web server agnostic. Currently has support for Hunchentoot and Clack. Routes are just functions and HTTP conditions are just Lisp conditions. LLGPL.

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

journal (⭐30) - a library for logging, tracing, record-and-replay testing and persistence. MIT.

Feb 13, 2022

Mobile

LispWork's mobile runtime - Android and iOs. Proprietary.

LQML - a lightweight ECL binding to QML (both Qt5 and Qt6) derived from EQL5. LGPL and public domain.

Reference

CDR - Common Lisp Document Repository. a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you refer to it, you can be sure that your reference will always refer to exactly the same document.
- the Common Lisp Document Repository is hosted at Zenodo.

Jan 27, 2022

Wrappers

lmdb (⭐29) - Bindings to LMDB, the Lightning Memory-mapped Database, an ACID key-value database with MultiVersion Concurrency Control.

Miscellaneous

cl-cffi-gtk (⭐130) - Binding for GTK+3. GNU LGPL2.1.
- a tutorial: Learn Common Lisp by Example: GTK GUI with SBCL

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

MGL (⭐335) - a machine learning library for backpropagation neural networks, boltzmann machines, gaussian processes and more. MIT.
- some parts originally contributed by Ravenpack International.
- used by its author to win (⭐127) the Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge.

Dec 18, 2021

Web development utilities / User login and password management

cl-cas (⭐1) - A library to help CAS authenticaton to Common Lisp web applications. Not in Quicklisp.
- cas-middleware (⭐0) - CAS authenticaton middleware for Caveman.
- cas-demo (⭐2) - a demo project.

Nov 24, 2021

Beginner

📹 Common Lisp Programming: from novice to effective developer - A learning video series on the Udemy platform (full content under paid access). Teaches the language basics, explains the ecosystem and shows real-world examples. By an active lisper and community contributor (@vindarel).

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Nov 22, 2021

Others / Third-party APIs

origin (⭐0) - A native Lisp graphics math library with an emphasis on performance and correctness. Includes: vectors, matrices (up to 4x4), quaternions, single/double-float support, destructive/non-destructive operations, shaping & intersections. MIT.

Nov 16, 2021

Querying HTML/DOM / Isomorphic web frameworks

👍 lquery (⭐76) - A jQuery-like HTML/DOM manipulation library. zlib.

Nov 15, 2021

Graph databases

neo4cl (⭐5) - a library for interacting with Neo4J. Sends Cypher queries to a Neo4J server, and decodes the responses into something useful for processing in CL. Apache2.
- and maybe: cl-neo4j (⭐26) - a thin neo4j RESTFUL client interface.

restagraph (⭐16) - an app that dynamically generates REST APIs for a Neo4j database, using a schema defined within the database. GPL3.

Nov 01, 2021

Advanced

Programming Algorithms in Lisp - Updated version of "Programming Algorithms"; A comprehensive guide to writing efficient programs with data structures and algorithms in Lisp.

Oct 26, 2021

VSCode / Third-party APIs

alive (⭐124) - Common Lisp Extension for VSCode. Public domain.
- see the Cookbook: using VSCode with Alive

Sep 29, 2021

Apps / Third-party APIs

CLUnit2 - A unit testing library. MIT.

Sep 26, 2021

To third parties

pzmq (⭐33) - ZeroMQ 4.0+ Common Lisp bindings. Unlicense.

Sep 23, 2021

Compression / decompression / Third-party APIs

archive (⭐28) - a library for reading and creating archive (tar, cpio) files. BSD_3Clause. A pure Common Lisp replacement for the tar program.
- see its recent fork cl-tar (2021). Announce.

Sep 13, 2021

Typing

👍 Coalton (⭐622) - an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp. MIT.

Aug 24, 2021

Persistent object databases

bknr.datastore (⭐84) - a CLOS-based lisp-only database in RAM with transaction logging persistence. Manual. licence.
- see also this good introductory blog post
- an example web application using bknr.datastore: screenshotbot-oss (⭐146).

Utils / Third-party APIs

cl-etcd (⭐9) - Run etcd as an asynchronous inferior process. etcd is a strongly consistent, distributed key-value store. AGPL-3.0.

Command-line options parsers / Third-party APIs

👍 Clingon (⭐51) - a rich command-line options parser system.
- it may have the richest feature set: subcommands, generation of bash completion, support for various kinds of options (integers, booleans, counter, enums…), extensible…

Aug 09, 2021

Community

quick-patch (⭐13) - easily override quicklisp projects without using git submodules. MPL-2.0.

Web development utilities / Web project skeletons and generators

cl-cookieweb (⭐20) - a Cookiecutter template to start a web project. BSD_3Clause. Not in Quicklisp.
- Provides a working toy web app with the Hunchentoot web server, easy-routes, Djula templates, styled with Bulma, based on SQLite, with migrations, an example table definition and a test suite using FiveAM.

make-like (⭐9) - an application template builder for LIKE (Lisp In Kubernetes + Emacs) applications. Apache2.0.
- Makefile, podman support, GitHub Actions, Prometheus metrics support, TOML-style config.ini, easy-route preconfigured with health-check and more.

cl-webapp-seed (⭐6) - a simple web application boilerplate. Uses Hunchentoot, cl-who, deploys easily to Heroku. MIT.

Others / Web project skeletons and generators

cl-wget (⭐9) - Makes retrieving large files or mirroring entire websites easy. AGPL-3.0.

trivial-download (⭐33) - Download files. MIT.

Writing, running scripts / Third-party APIs

ScriptL (⭐68) - Shell scripting made Lisp-like! Or, live-coding remote function calls for the shell. Write a command in the REPL, and run it instantly in the shell. LLGPL.
- similar and maybe simpler: lserver

Command-line options parsers / Third-party APIs

Adopt (⭐22) - A Damn OPTion parsing library. MIT.

Jul 23, 2021

System administration / Third-party APIs

Consfigurator - Lisp declarative configuration management system. You can use it to configure hosts as root, deploy services as unprivileged users, build and deploy containers, and produce disc images. GPL3.

Project skeletons / Third-party APIs

cl-project (⭐198) - General modern project skeletons. LLGPL.

cl-project-with-docs (⭐3) - uses Sphinx and reStructured text to render nice and readable HTML documentation. BSD.

cl-cookieproject (⭐42) - Generate a ready-to-use Common Lisp project. Not in Quicklisp. BSD_3Clause.
- test definitions, entry point to run from sources, build a binary, Roswell integration…

Jul 22, 2021

HTTP Servers / Clack plugins

clath (⭐30) - a single sign-on middleware for Clack. It allows basic login with OAuth1.0a, OAuth2 and OpenID. At the time of writing, it supports authentication from Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, StackExchange, Reddit and Github. Apache2.0.

Shells, shells interfaces / Third-party APIs

shcl (⭐277) - a POSIX-like shell in Common Lisp. Apache2.0.

Apps / Third-party APIs

Slite (⭐41) - a SLIme-based TEst runner for FiveAM Tests. Apache2.0
- Slite interactively runs your Common Lisp tests (at the time of writing only FiveAM is supported). It allows you to see the summary of test failures, jump to test definitions, rerun tests with the debugger, all from inside Emacs.

Jul 08, 2021

Miscellaneous

pngload-fast - A PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format decoder in portable Common Lisp with an emphasis on speed. MIT.

Jun 21, 2021

Community

#commonlisp on Libera Chat - main Common Lisp IRC channel.

#lisp on Libera Chat - IRC channel for all Lisp dialects.

#clschool on Libera Chat - IRC channel for learning Common Lisp.

#lispcafe on Libera Chat - IRC channel for off-topic discussions.

Jun 01, 2021

CLOS extensions

polymorphic functions (⭐39) - A function type to dispatch on types instead of classes with partial support for dispatching on optional and keyword argument types. Still experimental (May, 2021). MIT.
- polymorphic-functions dispatch on the types of the arguments supplied to it. This helps dispatching on specialized arrays as well as user-defined types.
- for differences with specialization-store and fast-generic-functions, see its README.

Apr 25, 2021

CLOS extensions

slot-extra-options (⭐8) - lets you build a metaclass which in turn lets you specify extra slot options in its classes. LGPL3.

Community

CLPM - A package manager for Common Lisp that strives to cleanly separate the package manager process itself from the client image that uses it. BSD_2Clause.

Qlot (⭐294) - A project-local library installer, similar to Bundler or Carton. Expat.

Quicksys - install systems from multiple Quicklisp distributions. MIT.

Apps / Third-party APIs

cl-coveralls (⭐28) - a helper library to post test coverage to Coveralls. See SBCL's code coverage tool. FreeBSD.

Date and time / Third-party APIs

local-time-duration (⭐16) - Duration processing library built on top of local-time. MIT.
- see this fork: humanize-duration (⭐8), that outputs only significant parts of a duration object. Has localization suport.

Apr 14, 2021

C, C++

crypto-shortcuts (⭐20) - Collection of common crypto shortcuts. zlib.

Persistent object databases

ubiquitous (⭐23) - A library providing easy-to-use persistent configuration storage. zlib.

Miscellaneous

👍 Qtools (⭐195) - A Qt toolkit, based on CommonQt. zlib Also Qtools-ui (⭐28) (premade UI components), with videos.

Portability layers

trivial-arguments (⭐18) - A portable library to retrieve the arguments list of a function. zlib.

definitions (⭐12) - a general definitions introspection library. It gives you the ability to retrieve definitions or bindings associated with designators such as symbols, packages, and names in general. zlib.

dissect - when a lot of projects use the “trivial-backtrace” system that just gives them a string with a backtrace, Dissect allows you to capture, step, and completely inspect the stack trace on a variety of Lisp implementations. Also very useful for logging and other situations where execution is automatically continued, but the information of the current stack is still useful to store somewhere. zlib.

Iteration

for - 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. zlib.

HTML generators and templates / Isomorphic web frameworks

clip - An HTML template processor where the templates are written in HTML. zlib.

Deployment / Isomorphic web frameworks

👍 deploy - A toolkit for binary deployment of Lisp applications, with extra support for foreign shared libraries. zlib.

Matrix libraries / Third-party APIs

3d-matrices - A library implementing common matrix calculations, with an emphasis on 2x2,3x3, and 4x4 matrices as commonly used in graphics. It provides some numerical functions as well, but those are not the focus. The library is heavily optimised, so it is not made of pretty code. zlib.

Event processing / Third-party APIs

simple-tasks (⭐19) - A very simple task scheduling framework. zlib.

deeds (⭐22) - Deeds is an Extensible Event Delivery System. It allows for efficient event delivery to multiple handlers with a complex event filtering system. zlib.

Writing, running scripts / Third-party APIs

cl-all (⭐15) - A script to run Lisp snippets in multiple implementations. This allows you to quickly compare implementation behaviour and differences. zlib.

Apps / Third-party APIs

Parachute (⭐66) - An extensible and cross-compatible testing framework. With test dependencies, conditions, fixtures and restarts. zlib.

Data validation / Third-party APIs

ratify (⭐28) - A collection of utilities to ratify, validate and parse inputs. zlib.

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

trivial-benchmark (⭐37) - Tiny benchmarking library. zlib.

Documentation builders / Third-party APIs

Staple (⭐48) - a tool to generate documentation pages using an HTML template. Uses the existing README, adds docstrings, crossreferences and links to the CLHS. zlib.

Files and directories / Third-party APIs

pathname-utils (⭐9) - A collection of utilities to help with pathname operations. zlib.
- filesystem-utils (⭐10) - deal with common problems with filesystems, such as listing files, probing file types, determining default directories, etc.
- file-attributes (⭐8) - access to common file attributes (uid, gid, permissions, ctime, mtime, atime).

Git / Third-party APIs

legit - an interface to the Git binary. zlib.

i18n / Third-party APIs

oxenfurt (⭐13) - A client library for the Oxford dictionary API. zlib.

language-codes - A database library for ISO language codes. zlib

system-locale - A library to retrieve the user's preferred language, so that your application may choose a sensible default. zlib.

multilang-documentation - Allows writing docstrings in multiple languages, for truly internationally documented libraries. zlib.

Logging / Third-party APIs

verbose - A fast and highly configurable logging framework. zlib.

Apr 12, 2021

Miscellaneous

Trial (⭐447) - Trial is an OpenGL game engine with a heavy focus on modularity. It is supposed to provide a large toolkit of useful bits and pieces from which you can create a game. zlib.
- the Kandria game is built with Trial.

trivial-gamekit – with this small framework you would be able to make simple 2D games: draw basic geometric forms, images and text, play sounds and listen to mouse and keyboard input. MIT.

virality (⭐76) - A component-based game engine written in Common Lisp MIT.

cl-gamepad - Access to gamepads and joysticks on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. zlib.

cl-mpg123 and cl-out123, bindings libraries for libmpg123 and libout123 respectively, giving you fast and easy to use mp3 decoding and cross-platform audio output. zlib.

Apr 10, 2021

C

cl-cxx-jit (⭐38) - Common Lisp and C++ interoperation with JIT. MIT.

Shells, shells interfaces / Third-party APIs

Lish (⭐65) - lish may someday be a lisp shell. GPL3.
- supports tab-completion of executables in the path and Lisp symbols, allows to write and to mix shell commands and Lisp code, has a tiny REPL and an interactive debugger, and more.

Apr 04, 2021

Mobile

cl-json (⭐5) - A highly customizable JSON encoder and decoder. MIT.

Apr 03, 2021

Apps / Third-party APIs

cl-mock (⭐15) - Another mocking library. It has more features than Mockingbird, like pattern matching on the mocked call, etc.

Apr 01, 2021

Statistics / Third-party APIs

lisp-stat - 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."
- https://lisp-stat.dev/
- ships Luke Tierney's XLisp-Stat (a predecessor of R) as well as newer libraries.

Mar 22, 2021

Iteration

doplus (⭐7) – another extensible iteration library, similar to :for.

Mar 15, 2021

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

printv (⭐66) - A batteries-included tracing and debug-logging macro. Apache2.

Mar 09, 2021

Files and directories / Third-party APIs

fof - File-object finder Common Lisp library. Enable rapid file search, inspection and manipulation. GPL3.

Feb 27, 2021

Monitoring / Isomorphic web frameworks

rollbar.lisp (⭐2) - interface to Rollbar.com, an error tracking software.

Feb 12, 2021

Web frameworks / Isomorphic web frameworks

CLOG (⭐1.1k) - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI. Uses web technology to produce graphical user interfaces for applications locally or remotely. BSD_3Clause.
- CLOG is based on the ideas of GNOGA, a framework the author wrote for Ada and used in commercial production code since 2013.

Interactive SSR (⭐31) - ISSR allows you to make interactive web pages without writing client scripting. No knowledge about Javascript or DOM is necessary.
- it is not unlike Phoenix LiveView or Hotwire.

Feb 11, 2021

Emacs / Third-party APIs

Emacs4CL (⭐230) - A tiny Emacs initialization file to quickly set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming. Comes with a line-by-line explanation of every line of code in the initialization file.

Jan 25, 2021

Tools

cl-docker-images - Docker images for ABCL, CCL, ECL, and SBCL on Windows (amd64) and Alpine and Debian (amd64, arm64, arm/v7) BSD_2Clause.

Jan 13, 2021

Shells, shells interfaces / Third-party APIs

cmd (⭐48) - utility for running external programs. Protects against shell interpolation, built with multi-threaded programs in mind, Windows support. MIT.
- uiop:run-program (synchronous) and uiop:launch-program (async) are shipped with ASDF and available on all modern implementations. See the CL Cookbook: running external programs.

Jan 06, 2021

Web Development

Lisp for the Web - A book that walks you through building a voting web application in three tiers.

Section on Web Development in The Common Lisp Cookbook - An introductory tutorial covering web server setup, routing, weblocks, templating, error handling, packaging, hot reloading, database connection, and deployment, amongst other topics in the current lisp web development ecosystem.

Others / Third-party APIs

Vellum (⭐67) - Data Frames for Common Lisp. BSD_2Clause.

rtg-math (⭐51) - a selection of the math routines most commonly needed for making realtime graphics in lisp (2, 3 and 4 component vectors, 3x3 and 4x4 matrices, quaternions, spherical and polar coordinates). BSD_2Clause.

Matrix libraries / Third-party APIs

lisp-matrix (⭐66) - A matrix package. FreeBSD.

Statistics / Third-party APIs

common-lisp-stat (⭐166) - Common Lisp statistics library. FreeBSD.

Utils / Third-party APIs

cmu-infix (⭐29) - A library for writing infix mathematical notation in Common Lisp. See also polisher (⭐4).

Dec 17, 2020

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

flatpack-common-lisp - A BuildStream project for building Flatpak based runtime environments for Common Lisp applications.

Utils / Third-party APIs

calispel (⭐25) - CSP-like channels for common lisp. With blocking, optionally buffered channels and a "CSP select" statement. ISC-style.
- "It is complete, flexible and easy to use. I would recommend Calispel over Lparallel and ChanL." @Ambrevar. discussion (⭐2k)

Apps / Third-party APIs

cl-phonetic (⭐22) - Phonetic pattern matching library for Common Lisp (intended to replace the Sylvia library for Python). MIT.

cl-string-generator (⭐20) - Generate string from regular expression. MIT.

Plotting / Third-party APIs

ADW-Charting - A simple chart drawing library written completely in Common Lisp. Also includes a backend to Google's chart service. BSD-like.

Dec 14, 2020

Tools

bst (⭐8) - Binary Search Tree. GPL3.

Dec 12, 2020

VSCode / Third-party APIs

commonlisp-vscode - an extension to support syntax highlight, auto completion, documentation on hover, go to definition, compile & load file, REPL. It is On GitHub (⭐35).

strict-paredit-vscode - structural editing and navigation like Emacs.

Dec 01, 2020

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

Lisp REPL core dumper - A portable wrapper to generate Lisp cores on demand to start REPL blazing fast. It can preload provided systems to help build a collection of specialized Lisp cores.

Nov 11, 2020

Tools

bitfield (⭐20) - Efficiently represent several finite sets or small integers as a single non-negative integer. MIT.

Clojure

ABCLJ (⭐81) - dead easy Clojure to Common lisp interop. EPL-2.0.

Other books

Building Problem Solvers (PDF) by Ken Forbus and Johan de Kleer, made available for free by MIT Press - a unique book among standard artificial intelligence texts in combining science and engineering, theory and craft to describe the construction of AI reasoning systems, and including code illustrating the ideas.

Nov 06, 2020

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

clml (⭐246) - originally developed by Mathematicl Systems Inc., a Japanese company. With a tutorial. LLGPL.

Oct 26, 2020

Tools

👍 FSet - A functional, set-theoretic collections data structure library. LLGPL.

Mobile

hu.dwim.walker - a code walker and unwalker (aka AST parser and unparser). BSD. See also this blog post.

Lambda shorthands

f-underscore - a tiny library of functional programming utils. (f_ (+ _ _)) -> (lambda (_) (+ _ _)). Public domain.

HTTP clients / Interfaces to other package managers

👍 Dexador (⭐289) - An HTTP client, that aims at replacing Drakma. MIT.

Units / Third-party APIs

physical-quantities (⭐30) - a library that provides a numeric type with optional unit and/or uncertainty for computations with automatic error propagation. GPL2

Job processing / Third-party APIs

cl-cron (⭐10) - A simple tool that provides cron like facilities. GPL3.

Apps / Third-party APIs

parseq (⭐21) - a library for parsing sequences such as strings and lists using parsing expression grammars. Inspired by Esrap. GPL2.

Compression / decompression / Third-party APIs

zippy (⭐10) - A ZIP archive format library based on 3bz. zlib.

PDF / Third-party APIs

cl-pslib - a (thin) wrapper around the pslib library for generating PostScript files. Also cl-pslib-barcode. LLGPL.

Oct 22, 2020

Miscellaneous

cl-cuda (⭐255) - A library to use NVIDIA CUDA in Common Lisp programs. LLGPL.

LispWork's CAPI - A portable GUI toolkit, with mobile runtime. Proprietary, but comes with a free version.

HTML generators and templates / Isomorphic web frameworks

flute (⭐58) - An easily composable HTML5 generation library with the most simplistic syntax. MIT.

lsx (⭐74) and markup (⭐55) - Two JSX-like templating engines, where HTML tags are Common Lisp code. markup comes with an Emacs package.

Utils / Third-party APIs

STMX (⭐225) - High performance Transactional Memory for Common Lisp. LLGPL.

REPLs / Third-party APIs

sbcli (⭐76) - a readline REPL for SBCL. With completion, quick commands, optional syntax highlighting (with pygments), and no interactive debugger. GPL3.

Apps / Third-party APIs

texp (⭐5) - A DSL to generate TeX. AGPL-3.0.

Compression / decompression / Third-party APIs

chipz (⭐15) - A decompression library. 3-clause BSD.

Salza2 - A library for creating compressed data. FreeBSD.

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

glyphs (⭐27) - A library for cutting down the verboseness of Common Lisp in places. GNU GPL3.

Oct 12, 2020

Miscellaneous

cl-liballegro (⭐45) - Interface and bindings to the Allegro 5 game programming library. zlib.

Oct 08, 2020

C, C++

with-c-syntax (⭐114) - a fun package which introduces the C language syntax into Common Lisp. (Yes, this package is not for practical coding, I think.) WTFPL Licence.

Function extensions

cl-advice (⭐1) - an attempt of portable layer advice library for SBCL, CCL, LispWorks and Allegro. Not in Quicklisp.

Oct 05, 2020

HTTP Servers / Interfaces to other package managers

👍Clack (⭐949) - A web application environment inspired by Rack and WSGI. LLGPL. Provides a unified interface to a webserver of choice (default is Hunchentoot). With more getting started guide.

Oct 01, 2020

Iteration

trivial-do (⭐13) - Additional dolist style macros for Common Lisp. MIT.

picl (⭐15) - An (almost) complete port of Python's itertools package, complete with laziness where applicable, and not relying on cl-cont. MIT.

Sep 30, 2020

Wrappers

cl-mango (⭐1) - A minimalist CouchDB 2.x database client. BSD_3Clause.
- See also clouchdb - Library for interacting with CouchDB. FreeBSD.

Sep 19, 2020

HTTP Servers / Hunchentoot plugins

👍 easy-routes (⭐37) - 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. MIT.

Linting, code formatting / Third-party APIs

sblint (⭐106) - a linter for Common Lisp source code using SBCL, suited for Reviewdog (slides). BSD_2Clause.

trivial-formatter (⭐27) - code formatter for Common Lisp. MIT.

Sep 15, 2020

Non-deterministic, logic programming

Temperance (⭐52) - logic programming. MIT. A focus on performance, with General Game Playing in mind.

Sep 14, 2020

APL

April (⭐427) - The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp. Replace hundreds of lines of number-crunching code with a single line of APL. Apache2.

Iteration

snakes (⭐43) - Python style generators for Common Lisp. Includes a port of itertools. Apache2.

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

sparser (⭐39) - A natural language understanding system for English. Eclipse.

Job processing / Third-party APIs

one-more-re-nightmare (⭐113) - a fast-ish regular expression compiler in Common Lisp. BSD_2Clause.

Shells, shells interfaces / Third-party APIs

Clesh (⭐58) - extends Common Lisp to embed shell code in a manner similar to perl's backtick. FreeBSD.

Apps / Third-party APIs

cl-yacc (⭐50) - a LALR(1) parser generator. MIT.

cl-shlex (⭐6) - simple lexical analyzer for shell-like syntaxes. MIT.

smug (⭐97) - parser combinators for Common Lisp. SMUG makes it simple to create quick extensible recursive descent parsers without funky syntax or impenetrable macrology. MIT.

i18n / Third-party APIs

gettext (⭐6) - a port of the gettext runtime to Common Lisp. GPL3.

Sep 13, 2020

Data validation / Third-party APIs

json-schema (⭐12) - A library for validating data against schemas of drafts 4, 6, 7, and 2019-09 of the JSON Schema standard. LLGPL.

Sep 08, 2020

C, C++

ecrepl - an interactive REPL for the C language. BSD_2Clause.

cl-ssh-keys (⭐11) - Common Lisp system for generating and parsing of OpenSSH keys. BSD_3Clause.

cl-bcrypt (⭐9) - Common Lisp system for parsing and generating bcrypt password hashes. BSD_3Clause.
- see also cl-pass (⭐24), using pbkdf2.

Python

burgled-batteries (⭐106) - A bridge between Python and Common Lisp. The goal is that Lisp programs can use Python libraries. Not available on Quicklisp. MIT.

Deployment / Isomorphic web frameworks

cube (⭐33) - Kubernetes client library for Common LISP generated from the Swagger specification. MIT.

Utils / Third-party APIs

Moira (⭐25) - Monitor and restart background threads. In-lisp process supervisor. MIT.

Aug 20, 2020

Mobile

cl-json-pointer (⭐7) - A JSON Pointer implementation. MIT.

Aug 17, 2020

Graph databases

cl-agraph (⭐24), a minimal client for AllegroGraph. AllegroGraph is a horizontally distributed, multi-model (document and graph), entity-event knowledge graph technology. It is proprietary and has a free version with a limit of 5 million triples.

Aug 06, 2020

Sublime Text / Third-party APIs

Sublime Text (proprietary) has Common Lisp support with its SublimeREPL and Slyblime (⭐38) packages. Slyblime is an implementation of SLY and it uses the same backend (SLYNK). It ships advanced features including a debugger with stack frame inspection.

Jul 31, 2020

Community

/r/learnlisp - a subreddit to ask questions and get help about Lisp

Jul 18, 2020

HTTP Servers / Hunchentoot plugins

hunchentoot-errors (⭐6) - Augments Hunchentoot error pages and logs with request and session information. MIT.

Jul 17, 2020

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

linux-packaging - build .deb, .rpm or .pkg packages for your application with a single ASDF declaration. Uses fpm under the hood. MIT.

cl-brewer (⭐10) - Homebrew formula builder for (command line) common lisp applications. Public domain.

Jul 14, 2020

Logging / Third-party APIs

⭐ log4cl (⭐60) - Logging framework modelled after Log4J. Apache2.0. Advanced integration with Slime.
- log4cl-json (⭐2) - JSON appender extension. BSD.

Jul 10, 2020

Graph databases

vivace-graph (⭐121) - graph database & Prolog implementation. Takes design inspiration from CouchDB, neo4j and AllegroGraph. It implements an ACID-compliant object graph model with user-defined indexes and map-reduce views. It also implements a master / slave replication scheme for redundancy and horizontal read scaling. Querying the graph is accomplished via a number of Lisp methods or via a Prolog-like query language. MIT.

HTTP Servers / Hunchentoot plugins

hunchentoot-auth (⭐3) - implementing user authentication with passwords. BSD.

Plotting / Third-party APIs

kai (⭐79) - A high-level plotter library for Common Lisp. A wrapper around the Plotly JS library. MIT.

cl-spark (⭐91) - sparkline strings for the console: (spark '(1 1 2 3 5 8)) => "▁▁▂▃▅▇". MIT.

Jul 09, 2020

Web Development

Lisp Web Tales - Simple tutorials using hunchentoot, cl-redis (⭐172), restas (⭐246), SEXML (⭐22), Postmodern (⭐333), and more.

Jul 02, 2020

CLOS extensions

dynamic-mixins (⭐25) - simple, dynamic class combination. BSD_2Clause.

Jun 30, 2020

Geany (experimental) / Third-party APIs

Geany-lisp (⭐8) is an experimental lisp mode for the Geany editor.

Jun 24, 2020

Intermediate

Lisp Tips (⭐98) - A blog with useful tips and tricks. A continuation of Common Lisp tips.

Lisp project of the day - A blog showcasing many Lisp libraries.

May 10, 2020

Beginner

Lisp Koans (⭐2.9k) - The project guides the learner progressively through many Common Lisp language features.

May 06, 2020

ORMs

cl-dbi (⭐178) - A database-independent interface for Common Lisp. LLGPL.
- dbd-oracle (⭐4) - an Oracle database driver for CL-DBI. LLGPL.

CLOS extensions

fast-generic-functions (⭐80) - Seal your generic functions for an extra boost in performance. MIT.

Macro helpers / Third-party APIs

trivial-with-current-source-from (⭐25) - Helps macro writers produce better errors for macro users. GPL3.

Apr 30, 2020

Migration tools

cl-migratum (⭐34) - a system which provides facilities for performing database schema migrations, designed to work with various databases. BSD_3Clause.

postmodern-passenger-pigeon (⭐5) - a migration manager for postmodern. No licence specified.

Web frameworks / Clack plugins

cl-rest-server (⭐58) - a library for writing REST web APIs. Features validation with schemas, annotations for logging, caching, permissions or authentication, documentation via Swagger, etc. MIT.

Others / OpenAPI, OData, OpenRPC

cl-odata-client (⭐5) - Common Lisp client library for accessing OData services. MIT.

Apr 21, 2020

Job processing / Third-party APIs

SBCL's timers, system-wide event schedulers.

Apr 14, 2020

HTML generators and templates / Isomorphic web frameworks

TEN (⭐27) - the completness of Djula meets the usability of Eco. MIT.

Writing, running scripts / Third-party APIs

clawk (⭐41) - an AWK implementation embedded into Common Lisp, to search files for lines and perform specified actions on its fields. BSD-style.

Command-line options parsers / Third-party APIs

Unix-opts (⭐96) - a command line options parser with a concise declaration of options. MIT.

Readline, ncurses and other graphical helpers / Third-party APIs

replic (⭐28) - helpers to turn existing code into a readline application, with a focus on defining the completion of the commands' arguments. Also comes as a ready to use executable, that transforms a user's lispy init file into readline commands. MIT.

cl-ansi-term (⭐23) - print colorized text, horizontal lines, progress bars, (un)ordered lists and tables on ANSI-compliant terminals. GPL3.

Shells, shells interfaces / Third-party APIs

Shelly (⭐65) - execute Common Lisp functions like a shell command, without the need to write a command line arguments parser. And it also can be used as a Make-like build-tool. FreeBSD.

System administration / Third-party APIs

Adams (⭐170) - UNIX system administration in Common Lisp. Not unlike Ansible, Chef or Puppet. ISC.

Date and time / Third-party APIs

periods (⭐26) - manipulating date/time objects at a higher level. With series-compatible data structure. BSD_3Clause.

Mar 17, 2020

Erlang

CLERIC (⭐33) - a Common Lisp Erlang Interface. An implementation of the Erlang distribution protocol, comparable with erl_interface and jinterface. MIT.

Apps / Third-party APIs

CodePlayground - an iPhone and iPad app with Lisp support via CCL.

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

GTFL - A graphical terminal for Lisp, meant for Lisp programmers who want to debug or visualize their own algorithms. A graphical trace in the browser. BSD-style.

Mar 10, 2020

Community

Common Lisp chat - Keybase team with well-defined rules and retention policies.

Vim & Neovim / Third-party APIs

Vlime (⭐368) - VLIME: Vim plus Lisp Is Mostly Evil. A Common Lisp dev environment for Vim (and Neovim). MIT.

Mar 05, 2020

Deployment / Isomorphic web frameworks

s2i-lisp (⭐29) - Source-to-Image builder image based on CentOS or alternatively RHEL7 for building Common LISP images for OpenShift (and also Docker). It features an up-to-date SBCL with Quicklisp installation, SLIME or SLY integration and allows customization via environment variables. Apache2

Others / Third-party APIs

Petalisp (⭐260) - an attempt to generate high performance code for parallel computers by JIT-compiling array definitions. It works on a more fundamental level than NumPy, by providing even more powerful N-dimensional arrays, but just a few building blocks for working on them. AGPL-3.0.

Matrix libraries / Third-party APIs

clem (⭐37) - a matrix library. BSD_2Clause.

REPLs / Third-party APIs

magic-ed (⭐19) - a tiny editing facility, where you can directly load, edit, manipulate and evaluate file or file content from the REPL, when going to a full IDE is too much. MIT.

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

cl-debug (⭐1) - a cross-package debug facility. Provides a unified way to enable or disable debug-specific code. Debugging code can be enabled or disabled relative to program features denoted by either a symbol or a keyword. ISC licence.

supertrace (⭐25) - Superior Common Lisp trace functionality for debugging/profiling. Trace many functions at once, use before and after hooks. BSD_2Clause.

Security / Third-party APIs

cl-isolated (⭐33) - A restricted environment for Common Lisp code evaluation AGPL-3.0.

Feb 19, 2020

Monitoring / Isomorphic web frameworks

cl-sentry-client (⭐19) - a Sentry client for Common Lisp, the cloud-based error monitoring system. MIT.

Feb 15, 2020

Miscellaneous

cl-jpeg (⭐19) - Baseline JPEG encoder and decoder library. 3-clause BSD.

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

flight-recorder (⭐13) - a robust REPL history facility.

cl-flamegraph (⭐56) - A wrapper around SBCL's statistical profiler, to generate FlameGraph charts for Common Lisp programs. BSD.

Feb 11, 2020

C, C++

Software-Evolution-Library (⭐129) - The SEL enables the programmatic modification and evaluation of software (C/C++ support using Clang, compiled assembler, and linked ELF binaries). GPL3.

C

cl-bindgen (⭐21) - A command line tool and library for creating Common Lisp language bindings from C header files. MIT.

Feb 05, 2020

Tools

cl-competitive (⭐144) - Common Lisp algorithms collection for competitive programming. Public domain, CCO or MIT.

Readline, ncurses and other graphical helpers / Third-party APIs

Linedit - Readline-style library that provides customizable line-editing features. MIT-style.

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

tracer (⭐46) - tracing profiler for Common Lisp, with output suitable for display in Chrome’s/Chromium’s Tracing Viewer. MIT.

Feb 03, 2020

Iteration

gmap (⭐15) - A concise and extensible iteration facility that has the advantage of integrating well with FSet (see the Data Structures section), as it was written by the same author. In Quicklisp as part of misc-extensions. Public domain.

Typing

defstar - a collection of macros for easy inclusion of type declarations for arguments in lambda lists. GNU GPL3

Others / Third-party APIs

array-operations (⭐40) - a collection of functions and macros for manipulating Common Lisp arrays and performing numerical calculations with them. MIT.

cl-geometry (⭐47) - a system for two dimensional computational geometry for Common Lisp. MIT.

Jan 24, 2020

C

cl-gobject-introspection (⭐35) - Gobject Introspection FFI. Automatic bindings to call into the C library. BSD. Generate a lisp interface with gir2cl (⭐6). LGPL3.

Jan 06, 2020

Tools

base-lisp-image (⭐34) - base Docker image for Common Lisp projects with SBCL or CCL and the latest ASDF, Qlot and Roswell.

Online editors / Third-party APIs

Judge0 IDE is an online editor which supports Common Lisp (SBCL). MIT.

Jan 02, 2020

Tools

hash-set (⭐13) - a convenience library implementing hash sets on top of CL hash tables The Unlicense

cl-containers - an extensive library of data structures and utilities - queues, trees, heaps, doubly-linked lists, sets, bags,... MIT

Dec 14, 2019

Miscellaneous

IUP (⭐115) - CFFI bindings to the IUP 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.

Dec 13, 2019

Mobile

rutils (⭐222) - radical yet reasonable syntactic utilities for Common Lisp. MIT.

Nov 26, 2019

C, C++

cl-yesql (⭐54) - SQL statements live in their own files, in SQL syntax, and are imported into Lisp as functions. You are not limited to the features a DSL supports. Based on Clojure's Yesql. MIT.

Nov 19, 2019

Tools

👍 str (⭐237) - a modern, simple and consistent string manipulation library. MIT.

trivial-extensible-sequences (⭐11) - Portability library for the extensible sequences protocol (SBCL documentation). zlib.

listopia (⭐25) - a list manipulation library inspired by Haskell's Data.List. LLGPL.

👍 access (⭐72) - Consistent and nested access to most common data structures. BSD_3Clause.

modf (⭐49) - a setf-like macro for functional programming.

Mobile

generic-cl (⭐103) - Generic function interface to standard Common Lisp functions (equality, comparison, arithmetic, objects, iterator, sequences,…). MIT. See also the more lightweight generic-comparability (⭐13). LLGPL.

Changing the syntax

cl21 (⭐887) - An experimental project to move Common Lisp into the 21st century. Expat.

cl-syntax (⭐35) - Reader syntax conventions. LLGPL.

cl-2dsyntax - An indentation-sensitive reader system. Not available on Quicklisp. Public domain.

cl-annot (⭐125) - Python-like annotations for Common Lisp. LLGPL.
- cl-annot-revisit (⭐3) - re-implementation of cl-annot. WTFPL.

cl-reader (⭐6) - A utility library intended at providing reader macros for lambdas, mapping, accessors, hash-tables and hash-sets. MIT.

Files and directories / Third-party APIs

ppath (⭐27) - Common Lisp's implementation of the Python's os.path module. BSD.

mmap (⭐27) - Portable mmap file memory mapping utility library. zlib.

Nov 12, 2019

Mobile

jonathan (⭐150) - A JSON encoder and decoder. MIT.

Community

Planet Lisp - A meta blog that collects the contents of various Lisp-related blogs.

Nov 03, 2019

CLOS extensions

filtered-functions (⭐41) - enable the use of arbitrary predicates for selecting and applying methods. MIT.

Oct 18, 2019

Persistent object databases

cl-prevalence - in-memory database system. Implementation of Object Prevalence, in which business objects are kept live in memory and transactions are journaled for system recovery. github fork (⭐27). LLGPL.
- See also cl-prevalence-multimaster (⭐3), to syncronize multiple cl-prevalence systems state.

HTTP clients / Interfaces to other package managers

fast-http (⭐330) - A fast HTTP request/response parser for Common Lisp. MIT.

HTTP Servers / Interfaces to other package managers

zaserve (⭐7) - A portable fork of AllegroServe, by Franz Inc. LLGPL.

cl-http2-protocol (⭐103) - a pure Common Lisp transport agnostic implementation of the HTTP/2 protocol at draft-14. MIT.

HTTP Servers / Hunchentoot plugins

hunchentoot-cgi (⭐5) - a library for executing CGI scripts from the hunchentoot webserver. BSD.

hunchentoot-multi-acceptor (⭐5) - Route multiple domains (virtual hosts) on a single hunchentoot acceptor using a single port. Apache2.0.

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

⭐ Parenscript - A translator from Common Lisp to Javascript. 3-clause BSD. See Trident-mode (⭐65), an Emacs mode that provides live interaction with the browser.unlicence.
- paren6 (⭐18) - a set of ES6 macros for Parenscript.

Others / Third-party APIs

avm (⭐49) - Efficient and expressive arrayed vector math library with multi-threading and CUDA support. MIT.

Utils / Third-party APIs

cl-coroutine (⭐56) - a coroutine library. It uses the CL-CONT continuations library in its implementation. MIT.

Actors pattern / Third-party APIs

erlangen (⭐65) - Distributed, asynchronous message passing system for Clozure Common Lisp. GNU GPL3.

Actors (⭐9) package for LispWorks (announce) MIT.

common-lisp-actors (⭐99) - a simple and easy to use Actor system. BSD_2Clause.

memento-mori (⭐30)- a library for writing robust, actor-based systems. It draws inspiration from Erlang/OTP, particularly its crash-first approach to high-availability systems, as well as Akka. MIT.

Date and time / Third-party APIs

calendar-date (⭐8) - a Gregorian calendar date library. MIT.

Oct 11, 2019

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

remote-js (⭐33) - send JavaScript from Common Lisp to a browser. MIT.

Sep 29, 2019

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

dh-quicklisp-buildapp (⭐7) - debhelper utility to let you compile your quicklisp-based Common Lisp code into a buildapp binary in a .deb with almost no effort. MIT.

Sep 17, 2019

Function extensions

cl-hooks (⭐14) - Hooks extension point mechanism (as known, e.g., from GNU Emacs). LGPL.

method-hooks - When CLOS method combination allow only one hook per method, this library allows an arbitrary number of them. Mozilla Public Licence.

Typing

👍 trivial-types (⭐62) - provides missing but important type definitions such as proper-list, association-list, property-list and tuple. LLGPL.

Aug 25, 2019

CLOS extensions

inlined-generic-function (⭐107) - Bringing the speed of Static Dispatch to CLOS. LLGPL.

static-dispatch (⭐65) - allows standard generic function dispatch to be performed statically (at compile time) rather than dynamically (runtime). This is similar to what is known as "overloading" in languages such as C++ and Java. MIT.

Configuration / Third-party APIs

chameleon (⭐13) - a configuration management library shipped with profile support. MIT.

Logging / Third-party APIs

a-cl-logger (⭐12) - Logging library providing context sensitive logging of more than just strings to more than just local files or output streams. Features logstash support, json support, logger hierarchies, context sensitive logging, objects printed as an inspectable presentation,…

Aug 23, 2019

Others / Third-party APIs

linear-programming – a library for solving linear programming problems. MIT.

Aug 22, 2019

Reference

Common Lisp Standard Draft (pdf) - The standard draft of the Common Lisp specifications, in a well formatted PDF with a sidebar.

Other / Third-party APIs

trivial-utf8 - A small library for doing UTF-8-based I/O. BSD.

Aug 10, 2019

Deployment / Isomorphic web frameworks

Heliohost for a free hosting solution.

Aug 06, 2019

Mobile

LispWorks - an integrated cross-platform development tool for Common Lisp.

Jul 30, 2019

Utils / Third-party APIs

swank-crew (⭐37) - distributed computation framework implemented using Swank Client. BSD_3Clause.

Jul 20, 2019

Lambda shorthands

cl-punch (⭐18) - Scala-like anonymous lambda literals. (mapcar ^(* 2 _) '(1 2 3 4 5)). MIT.

Jul 10, 2019

Data validation / Third-party APIs

sanity-clause (⭐38) - a data serialization/contract library for Common Lisp. Schemas can be property lists or class-based, allowing to check slots' types during make-instance. LLGPL.

Jul 08, 2019

CLOS extensions

specialization-store (⭐28) - generic functions based on types. Simplified BSD License variant.

Jul 07, 2019

Community

Lisp Discord Server

Jun 22, 2019

.Net Core

Bike (⭐114) - a cross-platform .Net Core interface. MIT.

Miscellaneous

Foil - A foreign object interface; works with the JVM and CLI. Not available on Quicklisp. CPL 1.0.

Jun 21, 2019

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

babel2 (⭐4) - A Fluid Construction Grammar implementation, computational framework, and unification-based grammar formalism Apache2.0.

Other scripting utilities / Third-party APIs

WCL (⭐68) [stalled] - allow hundreds of Lisp applications to be realistically available at once, while allowing several of them to run concurrently. WCL accomplishes this by providing Common Lisp as a Unix shared library that can be linked with Lisp and C code to produce efficient applications. For example, the executable for a Lisp version of the canonical Hello World! program requires only 20k bytes on 32 bit x86 Linux. WCL also supports a full development environment, including dynamic file loading and debugging. A modified version of GDB is used to debug WCL programs, providing support for mixed language debugging.

Jun 18, 2019

Developer utilities / Third-party APIs

repl-utilities (⭐47) - Ease common tasks at the REPL (print documentation, print external symbols, call hooks when loading a package,…). BSD_2Clause.

May 23, 2019

Python

cl4py (⭐73) - The library cl4py (pronounce as clappy) allows Python programs to call Common Lisp libraries. MIT.

py4cl (⭐178) - A library that allows Common Lisp code to access Python libraries. It is basically the inverse of cl4py. MIT.

cl-python (⭐338) - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp. LLGPL, not under active development.

May 22, 2019

Utils / Third-party APIs

cl-gearman (⭐22) - a library for the Gearman distributed job system. LLGPL.

May 16, 2019

Miscellaneous

bodge-nuklear (⭐50) - Wrapper over the Nuklear (⭐13k) immediate mode GUI library. MIT.

Others / Third-party APIs

cl-ana (⭐184) - Common Lisp data analysis library with emphasis on modularity and conceptual clarity. It aims to be a general purpose framework for analyzing small and large scale datasets, including binned data analysis and visualization. GNU GPL3.

May 15, 2019

Others / Third-party APIs

numcl (⭐616) - Numpy clone in Common Lisp. LGPL3.

Apr 17, 2019

CSV / Third-party APIs

auto-text (⭐10) - automatic (encoding, end of line, column width, csv delimiter etc) detection for text files. MIT. See also inquisitor (⭐34) for detection of asian and far eastern languages.

Apr 08, 2019

Atom / Third-party APIs

SLIMA (⭐62) allows you to interactively develop Common Lisp code, turning Atom into a pretty good, and actively developped, Lisp IDE. MIT.

Mar 13, 2019

Utils / Third-party APIs

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

Mar 01, 2019

Community

Ultralisp - A Quicklisp distribution which updates every 5 minutes and to which one can add his project in one click. BSD.

Deployment / Isomorphic web frameworks

cl-aws-runtime-test (⭐31) - An example of using Common Lisp (SBCL) as a custom runtime on AWS lambda. WTFPL.

Feb 26, 2019

Miscellaneous

eql, eql5, eql5-android - Embedded Qt4 and Qt5 Lisp, embedded in ECL, embeddable in Qt. Port of EQL5 to the Android platform. MIT.

Feb 20, 2019

Tools

cl-data-structures (⭐39) - a portable collection of data structures and algorithms (mainly dicts and sequences, with some statistical functions). BSD.

Feb 16, 2019

PDF / Third-party APIs

cl-typesetting (⭐64) and cl-pdf (⭐100) - cross-platform Common Lisp libraries for generating PDF files. FreeBSD.

Jan 30, 2019

Tools

cl-ctrie (⭐109) - lock-free, concurrent, key/value index with efficient memory-mapped persistence and fast transient storage models. MIT.

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

trident-mode (⭐65), an Emacs minor mode for live Parenscript interaction.

Monitoring / Isomorphic web frameworks

prometheus.cl (⭐75) - Prometheus.io client. Grafana dashboard for SBCL and Hunchentoot metrics (memory, threads, requests per second,…). MIT.

Jan 15, 2019

Date and time / Third-party APIs

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

Dec 21, 2018

Vim & Neovim / Third-party APIs

quicklisp.nvim - A Quicklisp frontend for Neovim.

Dec 20, 2018

Lambda shorthands

fn (⭐19) - a couple of lambda shorthand macros. (fn* (+ _ _)) --> (lambda (_) (+ _ _)). Public domain.

HTTP clients / Interfaces to other package managers

Carrier (⭐34) - A lightweight, async HTTP client built on top of cl-async and fast-http. MIT.

Others / Third-party APIs

Xecto (⭐38) - A library for regular array parallelism. 3-clause BSD.

Event processing / Third-party APIs

event-glue (⭐16) - simple eventing abstraction. No dependencies. It can be used anywhere you need a generic event handling system. MIT.

Dec 18, 2018

Eclipse / Third-party APIs

Dandelion (⭐26) - a Common Lisp plugin for the Eclipse IDE.

Dec 13, 2018

Vim & Neovim / Third-party APIs

Slimv_box (⭐11) - slimv in a Docker container.

Dec 06, 2018

Mobile

MOCL - CL as a library for mobile devices (iOS & Android) and OSX.

Nov 30, 2018

Tools

genhash (⭐13) – hash table implementation with API from generic methods. Public domain.

Nov 14, 2018

Community

/r/Common_Lisp - subreddit about Common Lisp

common-lisp.net

lisp-lang.org

Nov 08, 2018

HTTP Servers / Clack plugins

clack-static-asset-middleware (⭐1) - a cache-busting static asset middleware for the clack. MIT.

Oct 30, 2018

Wrappers

cl-sqlite (⭐62) - Bindings for SQLite. Public domain.

cl-memcached (⭐20) - Fast, thread-safe interface to the Memcached object caching system. Expat.

cl-mongo (⭐134) - MongoDB client. Expat.

cl-redis (⭐172) - Redis client. Expat.

cl-disque (⭐12) - Disque client. 3-clause BSD.

cl-rethinkdb (⭐44) - RethinkDB client. Expat.

Tools

⭐ pgloader (⭐4.3k) - a data loading tool for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL Licence.

C

👍cl-autowrap (⭐191) - Automatically parses header files into CFFI definitions. FreeBSD.

Miscellaneous

common-cv (⭐51) - the OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) binding library for CommonLisp. No license specified.

ftw (⭐49) - A Win32 GUI library. MIT.

Mobile

ECL - Embeddable Common Lisp; compiles to C. GNU LGPL2.1.

CLASP (⭐2.2k) - a new Common Lisp implementation that seamlessly interoperates with C++ libraries and programs using LLVM for compilation to native code. This allows Clasp to take advantage of a vast array of preexisting libraries and programs, such as out of the scientific computing ecosystem. LGPL2.1 (and others).

Allegro CL - provides the full ANSI Common Lisp standard with many extensions.

Community

👍Roswell (⭐1.6k) - a Lisp implementation installer, script launcher and more. MIT.

HTML generators and templates / Isomorphic web frameworks

👍 spinneret (⭐229) - Common Lisp HTML5 generator. Expat.

Utils / Third-party APIs

lfarm (⭐97) - distributing work across machines (on top of lparallel and usocket). BSD_3Clause

Emacs / Third-party APIs

👍 Sly (⭐995) - SLY is a fork of SLIME and contains multiple improvements upon it.

👍 Portacle - A portable and multiplatform Common Lisp environment: SBCL, Quicklisp, Emacs, Slime, Git.

Configuration / Third-party APIs

👍 py-configparser - reads and writes Python's ConfigParser-like configuration files. MIT.

Other / Third-party APIs

as such, the libraries we like best are marked with a 👍 (1F44D unicode character). See also the signs' explanation in the introduction.

Oct 28, 2018

Data validation / Third-party APIs

clavier (⭐16) - General purpose validation library for Common Lisp. MIT.

Oct 24, 2018

Non-deterministic, logic programming

Screamer (⭐204) - augment Common Lisp with practically all of the functionality of both Prolog and constraint logic programming languages. Blog post solving Project Euler puzzles. MIT.

Screamer+ (⭐5) - increasing the expressiveness of SCREAMER. MIT.

Oct 13, 2018

CSV / Third-party APIs

cl-decimals (⭐19) - Decimal number parser and formatter. Public domain.

Oct 11, 2018

Community

print-licenses (⭐18) - print licenses used by a project and its dependencies. MIT.

Oct 10, 2018

Mobile

cl-yacclyaml (⭐13) - a pure lisp YAML processor (loader, but not yet dumper). GPL3.

cl-yaml - a YAML parser and emitter built on top of libyaml. MIT.

Oct 08, 2018

i18n / Third-party APIs

cl-i18n - an i18n library. Load translations from GNU gettext text or binary files or from its native format. Localisation helpers of plural forms. LLGPL.

Sep 28, 2018

Readline, ncurses and other graphical helpers / Third-party APIs

cl-progress-bar (⭐16) - progress bars, just like in Quicklisp ! MIT.

Other / Third-party APIs

by default, add a library to the end of its section.

two libraries very similar in scope should be side by side, or in a section of their own.

do some curation based on your experience and the state of the library's documentation. We do not aim at listing every existing CL library (see Cliki for that) nor to list every "popular" library (see Quicklisp stats).

Aug 22, 2018

Reactive programming

Cells (⭐186) - an implementation of the dataflow programming paradigm, reactive spreadsheet-like expressiveness for CLOS. Used to build an algebra learning system. With documentation (⭐19). Lisp LGPL.

Job processing / Third-party APIs

clerk (⭐18) - a cron-like scheduler with sane DSL. MIT.

Aug 21, 2018

Contract programming

quid-pro-quo (⭐90) - a contract programming library in the style of Eiffel’s Design by Contract ™. Public domain.

Beginner

Learn X in Y minutes - Where X = Common Lisp - Small Common Lisp tutorial covering the essentials.

Successful Lisp - A good book for beginners with some programming background.

Aug 12, 2018

Miscellaneous

okra - CFFI bindings to Ogre. Not available on Quicklisp. 3-clause BSD.

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

Wuwei (⭐75) - A toolkit to build Ajax-based web pages. MIT.

Aug 07, 2018

Miscellaneous

CocoaInterface (⭐32) - Cocoa interface for Clozure Common Lisp. Build Cocoa user interface windows dynamically using Lisp code and bypass the typical Xcode processes. It has good documentation and a tutorial (⭐32).

Jul 16, 2018

HTML generators and templates / Isomorphic web frameworks

cl-closure-template (⭐71) - Implementation of Google's Closure templates, where compiling a template creates a function that generates the result. LLGPL.

Jul 12, 2018

Miscellaneous

lisp-magick-wand (⭐11) - ImageMagick bindings. BSD. Not in Quicklisp.

HTTP Servers / Clack plugins

live-reload (⭐8) - Live reload prototype for clack. LLGPL.

i18n / Third-party APIs

enchant (⭐15) - bindings for the Enchant spell-checker library. Public domain.

Jun 08, 2018

Mobile

json-mop (⭐55) - A metaclass for bridging CLOS and JSON objects. MIT.

arrow-macros (⭐100) - Clojure-like threading macros. MIT.

Deployment / Isomorphic web frameworks

heroku-buildpack-common-lisp - A Heroku buildpack that uses Roswell to compile Common Lisp applications. LGPL3.

Jun 06, 2018

Non-deterministic, logic programming

cl-prolog2 (⭐24) - Common Interface to ISO Prolog implementations from Common Lisp. MIT.

May 24, 2018

Date and time / Third-party APIs

cl-date-time-parser (⭐17) - 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. MIT.

May 02, 2018

Apps / Third-party APIs

wiki-lang-detect (⭐28) - Text language identification using Wikipedia data. No license specified.

Apr 07, 2018

Event processing / Third-party APIs

cl-flow (⭐49) - Data-flowish computation tree library for non-blocking concurrent Common Lisp. MIT.

Mar 16, 2018

C, C++

emotiq (⭐97) - a next-generation blockchain with an innovative natural-language approach to smart contracts. MIT.

Others / Web project skeletons and generators

Postmaster (⭐8) - A simple, easy-to-use SMTP/IMAP library. Expat.

Feb 12, 2018

Miscellaneous

cl-svg (⭐36) - A basic library for producing SVG files. Expat.

Varjo (⭐197) - Lisp to GLSL translator. BSD_2Clause.

Feb 06, 2018

Miscellaneous

dufy (⭐40) - exact color manipulation and conversion in various color models. MIT.

Jan 28, 2018

Reference

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

Jan 26, 2018

Job processing / Third-party APIs

psychiq (⭐44) - redis-based background job processing for Common Lisp applications. Inspired by Ruby's Sidekiq and compatible with its web UI. LLGPL.

Logging / Third-party APIs

cl-fluent-logger (⭐10) - A Common Lisp structured logger for Fluentd.

Jan 19, 2018

Miscellaneous

opticl (⭐177) - a library for representing and processing images. BSD_2Clause.

Apps / Third-party APIs

lake (⭐85) - a GNU make like build utility. MIT.

Jan 18, 2018

Readline, ncurses and other graphical helpers / Third-party APIs

cl-charms (⭐131) - an interface to libcurses in Common Lisp. It provides both a raw, low-level interface to libcurses via CFFI, and a more higher-level lispier interface. MIT.

Jan 17, 2018

To third parties

cl-influxdb (⭐21) - an interface to the Time Series Database InfluxDB. MIT.

Jan 16, 2018

REPLs / Third-party APIs

cl-repl (⭐131) - an ipython-like REPL. With completion, shell commands, magic commands, debugger, etc. MIT. With colorthemes (⭐11).

Jan 10, 2018

To third parties

dyna (⭐19) - an AWS DynamoDB ORM. MIT.

Objective-C

objc-lisp-bridge (⭐37) - A portable reader and bridge for interacting with Objective-C and Cocoa. MIT.

Miscellaneous

cl-webkit (⭐47) - A binding to WebKitGTK+. Also adds web browsing capabilities to an application, leveraging the full power of the WebKit browsing engine. MIT.

Jan 09, 2018

Beginner

Casting SPELs in LISP - A fun way to learn LISP while reading a comic book.

Reference

Simplified Common Lisp reference - The simplified version of CLHS.

Jan 08, 2018

C, C++

cmacro (⭐829) - Lisp macros for C. MIT.

C-mera (⭐342) - a source-to-source compiler that utilizes Lisp's macro system for meta programming of C-like languages. GPL3.

lispc (⭐509) - a powerful "lispsy" macrolanguage for C. MIT.

Tools

pileup - a portable, performant, and thread-safe binary heap for Common Lisp. MIT.

sycamore (⭐102) - a fast, purely functional data structure library. BSD_3Clause.

Emacs / Third-party APIs

cl-devel2 - a Docker container for Common Lisp development environment. Ships SBCL, CCL, Roswell and Emacs25 with Slime.

Jan 07, 2018

CLOS extensions

defclass-std (⭐34) - a shortcut macro to write DEFCLASS forms quickly. LLGPL.

Jan 06, 2018

C, C++

cl-monero-tools (⭐18) - Common Lisp toolbox to work with the Monero cryptocurrency. GPL3. Not in Quicklisp.

peercoin-blockchain-parser (⭐4) - parse the blockchain contained in a file and export some of its data to a text file, a SQL script or a database. It can also create a database using the RPC of a Peercoin daemon as source of data instead of a blockchain file. LGPL3. Not in Quicklisp.

peercoin-calculator (⭐2) - This program gives you the probability of generating a POS or POW block within 10 minutes, 24 hours, 31 days, 90 days and 1 year, as well as the reward that can be expected. GUI in Qt. GPL3. Not in Quicklisp.

peercoin-vote (⭐5) - A voting system based on data from the blockchain (addresses and balances). GPL3. Not in Quicklisp.

Jan 05, 2018

Mobile

👍 serapeum (⭐343) - Another general-purpose utility library. Expat.

anaphora - A collection of anaphoric macros. Public domain.

Jan 04, 2018

Reference

CLOS MOP specification - A modern public domain online version of chapters 5 and 6 of The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

Common Lisp the Language - The original standard for Common Lisp before the ANSI spec.

Date and time / Third-party APIs

chronicity (⭐60) - A natural language date and time parse, to parse strings like "3 days from now". BSD_3Clause.

Files and directories / Third-party APIs

⭐ uiop and its pathname package (replaces cl-fad). uiop is part of ASDF3 and as thus is shipped in many implementations. MIT.

osicat - A lightweight operating system interface on POSIX-like systems (directory iteration and deletion, environment variables, file permissions, etc) Expat.

Jan 03, 2018

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

qldeb (⭐4) - Quicklisp systems to debian packages, along with deb-packager (⭐4) (simply create a debian package by defining an s-expression) and an introductory blog post. Both MIT.

ql-to-deb (⭐20) - Update cl-* debian packages from Quicklisp releases. WTFPL.

Dec 31, 2017

HTTP Servers / Clack plugins

hermetic (⭐35) - Security for Clack-based web applications. Expat.

Dec 17, 2017

Other / Third-party APIs

corona (⭐46) - Create and manage virtual machines from Common Lisp http://eudoxia.me/corona MIT.

Dec 15, 2017

Web frameworks / Clack plugins

ningle (⭐234) - A super-micro web framework. LLGPL. ninglex (⭐30), an extended and noob-friendly ningle (mostly easier handling of query parameters). MIT.

Dec 06, 2017

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

antik - a foundation for scientific and engineering computation in Common Lisp. GPL. Also mgl-mat (⭐57) and LLA (⭐87).

Nov 29, 2017

HTTP Servers / Clack plugins

clack-errors (⭐26) - Error page middleware for Clack. LLGPL.

Nov 27, 2017

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

SmackJack (⭐18) - An Ajax Common Lisp Library using parenscript to generate javascript and hunchentoot (for now) as the web server. Also allows a server-side lisp function to call a client-side parenscript one. MIT.

Nov 25, 2017

Beginner

Lisp Quickstart - A good tutorial to get up and code Common Lisp quickly.

Nov 24, 2017

Miscellaneous

McCLIM - An implementation of the Common Lisp Interface Manager, version II. GNU LGPL2.1.

Nov 21, 2017

Apps / Third-party APIs

montezuma (⭐42) - Full-text indexing and search for Common Lisp. Expat.

mk-string-metrics (⭐20) - Calculate various string metrics efficiently in Common Lisp (Damerau-Levenshtein, Hamming, Jaro, Jaro-Winkler, Levenshtein, etc). MIT.

Configuration / Third-party APIs

envy (⭐54) - Configuration switcher. FreeBSD.

Nov 08, 2017

URI handling / Isomorphic web frameworks

quri (⭐96) - Another URI library for Common Lisp. Supports userinfo, IPv6 hostname, encoding/decoding utilities,… BSD_3Clause.

Oct 30, 2017

Apps / Third-party APIs

Check-it (⭐48) - A QuickCheck-style randomized property-based testing. LLGPL.

Oct 24, 2017

HTTP Servers / Clack plugins

clack-pretend (⭐10) - a testing and debugging tool for clack. Apache2.0.

Oct 08, 2017

Apps / Third-party APIs

Mockingbird (⭐18) - 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. MIT.

Oct 05, 2017

Notebooks / Third-party APIs

Darkmatter (⭐352) - A notebook-style Common Lisp environment. MIT.

Oct 02, 2017

Readline, ncurses and other graphical helpers / Third-party APIs

cl-readline (⭐35) - a set of functions to edit lines as they are typed in, to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and reedit them and perform csh-like history expansion. Emacs and vi editing modes. GPL3.

Sep 26, 2017

Others / Web project skeletons and generators

find-port (⭐17) - Programmatically find open ports. MIT.

Sep 01, 2017

Plotting / Third-party APIs

eazy-gnuplot (⭐59) - a lispy, structure-less Gnuplot library. With its cookbook. LLGPL

Jul 25, 2017

Markdown / Third-party APIs

3bmd (⭐74) - a markdown -> html converter. MIT.

Jul 07, 2017

Plotting / Third-party APIs

vgplot (⭐41) - an interface to the gnuplot plotting utility with the intention to resemble some of the plot commands of octave or matlab. GPL3.

Jul 04, 2017

Writing, running scripts / Third-party APIs

👍 Roswell (⭐1.6k) - a lisp installer and scripting environment (helper, launcher, installer) and more. MIT.

Jun 28, 2017

Intermediate

The Common Lisp Cookbook

May 29, 2017

Mobile

ABCL - Armed Bear Common Lisp; targets the JVM, compiles to bytecode. Standard conformance. GNU GPL3 with Classpath exception.

Intermediate

Common Lisp Recipes - Common Lisp Recipes is a collection of solutions to problems and answers to questions you are likely to encounter when writing real-world applications in Common Lisp. Published in 2015.

May 08, 2017

Beginner

Practical Common Lisp - A good introductory text to Common Lisp, with practical examples.

Land of Lisp - A fun, game-oriented introduction to Common Lisp.

Advanced

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

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

Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS - An old, but very thorough book on CLOS.

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp - A book on programming AI that covers some advanced Lisp.

Reference

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

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

Intermediate

ANSI Common Lisp - A thorough, practical covering of the entire language, with exercises. Not recommended as a starter text, due to some caveats.

Apr 26, 2017

URI handling / Isomorphic web frameworks

cl-slug (⭐22) - a small library to make slugs, mainly for URIs, transform in CamelCase, remove accentuation and punctuation, for english and beyound. LLGPL.

Other scripting utilities / Third-party APIs

Parinfer - Parinfer is a way to edit lisp code that helps to keep both the indentation and the parenthesis balanced. It is easy to start with and yet it offers advanced features à la Paredit. It is available on many editors (Emacs, Vim, Neovim, Atom, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, LightTable, CodeMirror,…).

Mar 07, 2017

C, C++

trivial-ssh (⭐38) - An SSH client library. Expat.

ORMs

crane (⭐188) - Another ORM. Expat.

datafly (⭐89) - A lightweight database library. 3-clause BSD.

sxql (⭐294) - A DSL for generating SQL. 3-clause BSD.

Java

cl+j - A JNI-based interface to a JVM via CFFI. Not available on Quicklisp. Does not reliably work with all implementations. Expat.

Miscellaneous

cl-cairo2 (⭐56) - Cairo bindings. Boost 1.0

cl-gd - A library providing an interface to the GD graphics library. FreeBSD.

cl-horde3d (⭐15) - FFI bindings to the Horde3D graphics library. Not available on Quicklisp. EPL 1.0

cl-opengl (⭐260) - CFFI bindings to OpenGL, GLU and GLUT APIs. 3-clause BSD.

cl-sdl2 (⭐253) - Bindings for SDL2 using C2FFI. Expat.

CLinch (⭐264) - Common Lisp 2D/3D graphics engine for OpenGL. FreeBSD.

donuts (⭐20) - Graphviz interface for Common Lisp. Expat.

lispbuilder-sdl (⭐173) - A set of bindings for SDL. Expat.

Vecto - Simple vector drawing library. FreeBSD.

zpng - A library for creating PNG files. FreeBSD.

cl-gtk2 (⭐37) - A binding for GTK+2. LLGPL.

Mobile

jsown (⭐101) - A reader and writer for the JSON format. Expat.

Beginner

Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation - A nice introduction into the language.

Community

Quickutil (⭐85) - A utility manager, similar to Quicklisp, but for small utilities rather than whole libraries. 3-clause BSD.

Community / Interfaces to other package managers

cl-nlp (⭐199) - Natural language processing toolset. Apache2.0.

HTTP Servers / Interfaces to other package managers

wookie (⭐184) - Asynchronous HTTP server. Expat.

HTML generators and templates / Isomorphic web frameworks

eco (⭐38) - Fast, flexible, designer-friendly template engine. Expat.

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

CL-JavaScript - A translator from Javascript to Common Lisp. Not available on Quicklisp. Expat.

parse-js - A package for parsing ECMAScript 3. zlib.

Others / Web project skeletons and generators

css-lite (⭐72) - A CSS grammar. Expat.

Others / Third-party APIs

GSLL - GNU Scientific Library for Lisp; allows the use of the GSL from Common Lisp. GNU LGPL2.1.

Utils / Third-party APIs

chanl (⭐153) - Portable, channel-based concurrency. Expat, with parts under 3-clause BSD.

cl-async (⭐245) - A library for general-purpose, non-blocking programming. Expat.

Vim & Neovim / Third-party APIs

SLIMV (⭐428) - Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim; a full-blown environment for Common Lisp inside of Vim. No license specified.

Apps / Third-party APIs

quicksearch (⭐45) - Look up online libraries from the REPL. Expat.

Other / Third-party APIs

babel (⭐81) - A charset encoding/decoding library. Expat.

fast-io (⭐133) - Fast octet-vector/stream I/O. 3-clause BSD.

iolib (⭐135) - I/O library. Expat.

named-readtables (⭐53) - Provides a readtable namespace, akin to package namespaces. 3-clause BSD.

simple-currency (⭐7) - A currency conversion library using daily information published by the ECB. FreeBSD.

trivial-garbage (⭐35) - A portable finalizer, weak hash-table and weak pointer API. Public domain.

Dec 21, 2016

HTTP Servers / Interfaces to other package managers

woo (⭐1.1k) - A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev. MIT.

Web frameworks / Clack plugins

Caveman (⭐726) - A powerful web framework. LLGPL. Example projects: Quickdocs

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

JSCL (⭐803) - A CL-to-JS compiler designed to be self-hosting from day one. Lacks CLOS, format and loop.