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A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.

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Jun 18th

HTTP Servers

Clack plugins

tiny-routes stars5 - A tiny routing library for Common Lisp targeting Clack. BSD_3Clause.

Jun 6th

Build Systems

⭐ASDF - Another System Definition Facility; a build system for Common Lisp. Expat. Quicklisp (see library manager) uses ASDF under the hood.

known ASDF extensions, such as asdf-system-connections, that lets you specify systems that are automatically loaded when two other systems are loaded, to connect them.

Cryptography

⭐ Ironclad stars123 - 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 stars343 - Portable, easy-to-use C foreign function interface. Expat.

Graphics

⭐ Sketch stars1.2k - A CL framework for the creation of electronic art, graphics, and lots more. MIT.

GUI

⭐ CommonQt stars102 - A Common Lisp binding for Qt4 via QtSmoke. FreeBSD.

⭐ 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.

Implementations

⭐ 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 stars42 - Dynamic library delivery tools for SBCL. MIT. Blog post. Full example.

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

Language extensions

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

⭐ trivia stars257 - Optimized pattern-matching library. LLGPL.

Changing the syntax

⭐ cl-interpol stars44 - A set of reader modifications to allow string interpolation. BSD.

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.

Library Manager

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

HTTP Servers

⭐ Hunchentoot - A web server. 2-clause BSD

HTML generators and templates

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

⭐ Djula stars123 - A port of Django's template engine to Common Lisp. Expat.

Javascript

⭐ Parenscript - A translator from Common Lisp to Javascript. 3-clause BSD. See Trident-mode stars64, an Emacs mode that provides live interaction with the browser.unlicence.

paren6 stars17 - a set of ES6 macros for Parenscript.

Parallelism and Concurrency

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

⭐ lparallel stars216 - A library for parallel programming. 3-clause BSD.

Regex

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

Emacs

⭐ Slime stars1.6k - Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs; a full-blown environment for Common Lisp inside of Emacs. Public domain.

Text Parsers

⭐ esrap stars54 - Packrat parser. Expat.

Unit Testing

⭐ FiveAM stars159 - Simple regression testing framework. FreeBSD.

CSV

⭐ cl-csv stars102 - A library for parsing CSV files. 3-clause BSD.

Date and time

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

Files and directories

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

Logging

⭐ log4cl stars61 - Logging framework modelled after Log4J. Apache2.0. Advanced integration with Slime.

log4cl-json stars2 - JSON appender extension. BSD.

Caching

clache stars7 - General caching facility. Cache any Lisp object on disk or in memory. A cache can be persistent or have an expiration time. LLGPL.

Literate programming

literate-lisp stars39 - Load Common Lisp code blocks from Emacs' Org files. MIT.

erudite stars52 - Literate Programming System built with interactive development in mind. MIT.

Jun 1st

Email

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

May 22nd

Matrix libraries

magicl stars187 - Matrix Algebra proGrams In Common Lisp based on BLAS/LAPACK and Expokit, by Rigetti Computing. BSD_3Clause.

May 18th

Javascript

sigil stars2 - A Parenscript to Javascript command line compiler and REPL. MIT.

Apr 19th

GUI

cl-cffi-gtk stars129 - Binding for GTK+3. GNU LGPL2.1.

a tutorial: Learn Common Lisp by Example: GTK GUI with SBCL

Emacs

slime-star stars8 - a SLIME configuration with extensions pre-installed, with also some custom utilities and menus:

the Lisp system browser
SLIME doc contrib stars18 - enhance the default help buffer.
Quicklisp systems stars27 - Search, browse and load Quicklisp systems from Emacs.
Quicksearch stars43
Slime breakpoints stars3
Slite stars38 - a test runner for FiveAM.

XML

CXML - XML parser and serializer, with a range of extension libraries. LLGPL.

👍 has an incremental parser, allowing to parse big files.
see the FXML stars19 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.

Plump stars102 - A lenient XML parser. zlib.

xpath stars4 (homepage - Implementation of the XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0. BSD_2Clause.

s-xml - A basic parser. LLGPL.

xmls stars15 - A small, simple, non-validating XML parser. 3-clause BSD.

cl-feedparser stars24 - A Common Lisp (RSS, Atom) feed parser. LLGPL

Buildnode stars18 - A common lisp library to ease interaction with CXML-dom, such as building Excel spreadsheets. BSD.

Mar 23rd

i18n

translate stars6 - seamless language localization. LLGPL.

Mar 11th

GUI

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 9th

Isomorphic web frameworks

Weblocks stars12 - A widgets-based framework with a built-in ajax update mechanism that "solves the JavaScript problem". LLGPL.

Mar 2nd

Web frameworks

radiance stars251 - A web application environment and framework . zlib.

Feb 13th

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 27th

Wrappers

lmdb stars30 - Bindings to LMDB, the Lightning Memory-mapped Database, an ACID key-value database with MultiVersion Concurrency Control.

Machine Learning

MGL stars327 - 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 stars126 the Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge.

Jan 6th

Actors pattern

👍 cl-gserver stars116 - 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.

Dec 7th, 2021

Others

cl-webdriver-client stars14 - a binding library to WebDriver (supports Selenium 4.0).

Nov 24th, 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).

Thanks for supporting my work on Udemy. Also note that I release free coupons from time to time, and that Udemy often proposes drastic promotions, but you can ask me a free coupon too.

Nov 22nd, 2021

Numerical and Scientific

origin stars0 - 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 16th, 2021

Querying HTML/DOM

👍 lquery stars74 - A jQuery-like HTML/DOM manipulation library. zlib.

Others

maiden - A bot and chat system framework with support for IRC and more. zlib.

Nov 15th, 2021

Graph databases

neo4cl stars4 - 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 stars23 - a thin neo4j RESTFUL client interface.

Nov 1st, 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 26th, 2021

VSCode

alive stars92 - Common Lisp Extension for VSCode. Public domain.

see the Cookbook: using VSCode with Alive

Sep 29th, 2021

Unit Testing

CLUnit2 - A unit testing library. MIT.

Sep 26th, 2021

To third parties

pzmq stars33 - ZeroMQ 4.0+ Common Lisp bindings. Unlicense.

Sep 13th, 2021

Typing

👍 Coalton stars458 - an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp. MIT.

Aug 24th, 2021

Persistent object databases

bknr.datastore stars78 - 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 stars129.

Command-line options parsers

👍 Unix-opts stars95 - a command line options parser with a concise declaration of options. MIT.

Clingon stars43 - a rich command-line options parser system.

newer, it may have the richest feature set: subcommands, generation of bash completion, support for various kinds of options (integers, booleans, counter, enums…), extensible…

Aug 9th, 2021

Web project skeletons and generators

cl-cookieweb stars11 - 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 stars10 - 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 stars6 - a simple web application boilerplate. Uses Hunchentoot, cl-who, deploys easily to Heroku. MIT.

Others

cl-wget stars9 - Makes retrieving large files or mirroring entire websites easy. AGPL-3.0.

trivial-download stars34 - Download files. MIT.

Command-line options parsers

Adopt stars23 - A Damn OPTion parsing library. MIT.

Jul 23rd, 2021

System administration

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

cl-project stars189 - General modern project skeletons. LLGPL.

cl-project-with-docs stars3 - uses Sphinx and reStructured text to render nice and readable HTML documentation. BSD.

cl-cookieproject stars27 - 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 22nd, 2021

Shells, shells interfaces

shcl stars274 - a POSIX-like shell in Common Lisp. Apache2.0.

Jul 8th, 2021

Graphics

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

Jun 21st, 2021

Community

#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.

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

Apr 25th, 2021

Library Manager

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 stars288 - A project-local library installer, similar to Bundler or Carton. Expat.

Quicksys - install systems from multiple Quicklisp distributions. MIT.

Websockets

Portal stars18 - Portable websockets for Common Lisp using usocket. LLGPL.

Apr 14th, 2021

Cryptography

crypto-shortcuts stars19 - Collection of common crypto shortcuts. zlib.

Persistent object databases

ubiquitous stars22 - A library providing easy-to-use persistent configuration storage. zlib.

GUI

👍 Qtools stars189 - A Qt toolkit, based on CommonQt. zlib Also Qtools-ui stars28 (premade UI components), with videos.

Language extensions

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.

Portability layers

trivial-arguments stars18 - A portable library to retrieve the arguments list of a function. zlib.

definitions stars11 - 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.

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.

Parsing html

👍 Plump stars102 - A lenient HTML/XML parser, tolerant on malformed markup. zlib. Best used with lquery stars74 and clss stars26.

HTML generators and templates

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

Deployment

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

Matrix libraries

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

simple-tasks stars18 - A very simple task scheduling framework. zlib.

deeds stars22 - 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

cl-all stars13 - A script to run Lisp snippets in multiple implementations. This allows you to quickly compare implementation behaviour and differences. zlib.

Unit Testing

Parachute stars61 - An extensible and cross-compatible testing framework. With test dependencies, conditions, fixtures and restarts. zlib.

Data validation

ratify stars28 - A collection of utilities to ratify, validate and parse inputs. zlib.

Documentation builders

Staple stars46 - 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

pathname-utils stars9 - A collection of utilities to help with pathname operations. zlib.

Git

legit - an interface to the Git binary. zlib.

i18n

oxenfurt stars13 - 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

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

Apr 12th, 2021

Game Development

Trial stars350 - 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.

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.

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.

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

virality stars73 - A component-based game engine written in Common Lisp MIT.

Apr 10th, 2021

Shells, shells interfaces

Lish stars52 - 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.

C

cl-cxx-jit stars34 - Common Lisp and C++ interoperation with JIT. MIT.

Apr 4th, 2021

JSON

cl-json stars3 - A highly customizable JSON encoder and decoder. MIT.

Apr 3rd, 2021

Unit Testing

cl-mock stars14 - Another mocking library. It has more features than Mockingbird, like pattern matching on the mocked call, etc.

Apr 1st, 2021

Statistics

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 22nd, 2021

Iteration

doplus stars7 – another extensible iteration library, similar to :for.

Feb 27th, 2021

Monitoring

rollbar.lisp stars2 - interface to Rollbar.com, an error tracking software.

Feb 12th, 2021

Isomorphic web frameworks

CLOG stars922 - 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 - 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 11th, 2021

Emacs

Emacs4CL stars219 - 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 25th, 2021

Docker images

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 13th, 2021

Shells, shells interfaces

cmd stars47 - 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 6th, 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.

Numerical and Scientific

Vellum stars64 - Data Frames for Common Lisp. BSD_2Clause.

rtg-math stars50 - 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

lisp-matrix stars65 - A matrix package. FreeBSD.

Statistics

common-lisp-stat stars165 - Common Lisp statistics library. FreeBSD.

Utils

cmu-infix stars28 - A library for writing infix mathematical notation in Common Lisp. See also polisher stars4.

Dec 17th, 2020

Library Manager

Interfaces to other package managers

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

Parallelism and Concurrency

calispel stars25 - 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

Plotting

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

Dec 14th, 2020

Data Structures

bst stars7 - Binary Search Tree. GPL3.

Dec 12th, 2020

VSCode

commonlisp-vscode - an extension to support syntax highlight, auto completion, documentation on hover, go to definition, compile & load file, REPL. It is On GitHub stars38.

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

Nov 11th, 2020

Clojure

ABCLJ stars80 - 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 6th, 2020

Machine Learning

clml stars246 - originally developed by Mathematicl Systems Inc., a Japanese company. With a tutorial. LLGPL.

Oct 29th, 2020

Iteration

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.

Oct 26th, 2020

Units

physical-quantities stars32 - a library that provides a numeric type with optional unit and/or uncertainty for computations with automatic error propagation. GPL2

Text Parsers

parseq stars21 - a library for parsing sequences such as strings and lists using parsing expression grammars. Inspired by Esrap. GPL2.

Compression / decompression

zippy stars10 - A ZIP archive format library based on 3bz. zlib.

Data Structures

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

Language extensions

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

👍 Dexador stars275 - An HTTP client, that aims at replacing Drakma. MIT.

Job processing

cl-cron stars7 - A simple tool that provides cron like facilities. GPL3.

PDF

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

Oct 22nd, 2020

Graphics

cl-cuda stars257 - A library to use NVIDIA CUDA in Common Lisp programs. LLGPL.

Text Parsers

texp stars4 - A DSL to generate TeX. AGPL-3.0.

Compression / decompression

chipz stars15 - A decompression library. 3-clause BSD.

Salza2 - A library for creating compressed data. FreeBSD.

GUI

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

HTML generators and templates

flute stars59 - An easily composable HTML5 generation library with the most simplistic syntax. MIT.

lsx stars74 and markup stars52 - Two JSX-like templating engines, where HTML tags are Common Lisp code. markup comes with an Emacs package.

Parallelism and Concurrency

STMX stars227 - High performance Transactional Memory for Common Lisp. LLGPL.

REPLs

sbcli stars67 - a readline REPL for SBCL. With completion, quick commands, optional syntax highlighting (with pygments), and no interactive debugger. GPL3.

Oct 12th, 2020

Graphics

cl-liballegro stars44 - Interface and bindings to the Allegro 5 game programming library. zlib.

Oct 8th, 2020

C, C++

with-c-syntax stars110 - 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 - an attempt of portable layer advice library for SBCL, CCL, LispWorks and Allegro. Not in Quicklisp.

Oct 5th, 2020

HTTP Servers

👍Clack stars934 - 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 1st, 2020

Iteration

trivial-do stars12 - Additional dolist style macros for Common Lisp. MIT.

picl stars13 - An (almost) complete port of Python's itertools package, complete with laziness where applicable, and not relying on cl-cont. MIT.

Sep 30th, 2020

Wrappers

cl-mango stars1 - A minimalist CouchDB 2.x database client. BSD_3Clause. See also clouchdb - Library for interacting with CouchDB. FreeBSD.

Sep 19th, 2020

HTTP Servers

Hunchentoot plugins

👍 easy-routes stars38 - 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

sblint stars105 - a linter for Common Lisp source code using SBCL, suited for Reviewdog (slides). BSD_2Clause.

trivial-formatter stars23 - code formatter for Common Lisp. MIT.

Sep 15th, 2020

Non-deterministic, logic programming

Temperance stars51 - logic programming. MIT. A focus on performance, with General Game Playing in mind.

Sep 14th, 2020

APL

April stars406 - 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 stars41 - Python style generators for Common Lisp. Includes a port of itertools. Apache2.

Natural Language Processing

sparser stars38 - A natural language understanding system for English. Eclipse.

Regex

one-more-re-nightmare stars104 - a fast-ish regular expression compiler in Common Lisp. BSD_2Clause.

Shells, shells interfaces

Clesh stars59 - extends Common Lisp to embed shell code in a manner similar to perl's backtick. FreeBSD.

Text Parsers

cl-yacc stars51 - a LALR(1) parser generator. MIT.

cl-shlex stars7 - simple lexical analyzer for shell-like syntaxes. MIT.

smug stars98 - parser combinators for Common Lisp. SMUG makes it simple to create quick extensible recursive descent parsers without funky syntax or impenetrable macrology. MIT.

i18n

gettext stars6 - a port of the gettext runtime to Common Lisp. GPL3.

Sep 13th, 2020

Data validation

json-schema stars10 - A library for validating data against schemas of drafts 4, 6, 7, and 2019-09 of the JSON Schema standard. LLGPL.

Sep 8th, 2020

Python

burgled-batteries stars103 - A bridge between Python and Common Lisp. The goal is that Lisp programs can use Python libraries. Not available on Quicklisp. MIT.

Email

mailgun stars10 - A thin wrapper to post HTML emails through mailgun.com. unlicence.

Deployment

cube stars34 - Kubernetes client library for Common LISP generated from the Swagger specification. MIT.

Parallelism and Concurrency

Moira stars25 - Monitor and restart background threads. In-lisp process supervisor. MIT.

Graph databases

facts stars41 - an in-memory graph database with transactions and rollbacks, logging/replay and dumping/loading to/from disk. BSD-style license (ISC).

C, C++

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

Cryptography

cl-ssh-keys stars11 - Common Lisp system for generating and parsing of OpenSSH keys. BSD_3Clause.

cl-bcrypt stars8 - Common Lisp system for parsing and generating bcrypt password hashes. BSD_3Clause.

see also cl-pass stars25, using pbkdf2.

Aug 20th, 2020

JSON

cl-json-pointer stars6 - A JSON Pointer implementation. MIT.

Aug 17th, 2020

Graph databases

cl-agraph stars20, 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 6th, 2020

Sublime Text

Sublime Text (proprietary) has Common Lisp support with its SublimeREPL and Slyblime stars36 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 31st, 2020

Community

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

Jul 18th, 2020

HTTP Servers

Hunchentoot plugins

hunchentoot-errors stars4 - Augments Hunchentoot error pages and logs with request and session information. MIT.

Jul 17th, 2020

Library Manager

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 stars10 - Homebrew formula builder for (command line) common lisp applications. Public domain.

Jul 11th, 2020

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👍 cl-forms stars32 - Web forms handling library for Common lisp. MIT.

Jul 10th, 2020

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hunchentoot-auth stars2 - implementing user authentication with passwords. BSD.

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kai stars78 - A high-level plotter library for Common Lisp. A wrapper around the Plotly JS library. MIT.

cl-spark stars89 - sparkline strings for the console: (spark '(1 1 2 3 5 8)) => "▁▁▂▃▅▇". MIT.

Graph databases

vivace-graph stars120 - 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.

Jul 9th, 2020

Web Development

Lisp Web Tales - Simple tutorials using hunchentoot, cl-redis stars168, restas stars250, SEXML stars22, Postmodern stars323, and more.

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