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

Nov 24th

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

Numerical and Scientific

origin stars1 - 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

Web frameworks

radiance stars236 - A web application environment and framework . zlib.

Querying HTML/DOM

👍 lquery stars69 - A jQuery-like HTML/DOM manipulation library. zlib.

Others

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

XML

Plump stars96 - A lenient XML parser. zlib.

Nov 15th

Graph databases

neo4cl stars3 - 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 stars22 - a thin neo4j RESTFUL client interface.

Nov 1st

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

VSCode

alive stars57 - Common Lisp Extension for VSCode. Public domain.

see the Cookbook: using VSCode with Alive

Sep 29th

Unit Testing

CLUnit2 - A unit testing library. MIT.

Sep 26th

To third parties

pzmq stars30 - ZeroMQ 4.0+ Common Lisp bindings. Unlicense.

Sep 13th

Typing

👍 Coalton stars246 - an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp. MIT.

Aug 24th

Persistent object databases

bknr.datastore stars65 - 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 stars94.

Command-line options parsers

👍 Unix-opts stars88 - a command line options parser with a concise declaration of options. MIT.

Clingon stars27 - 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 10th

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.

Aug 9th

Web project skeletons and generators

cl-cookieweb stars9 - 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 stars9 - 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 stars5 - 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 stars31 - Download files. MIT.

Command-line options parsers

Adopt stars18 - A Damn OPTion parsing library. MIT.

Jul 23rd

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 stars175 - 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 stars16 - 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

Shells, shells interfaces

shcl stars260 - a POSIX-like shell in Common Lisp. Apache2.0.

Jul 8th

Graphics

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

Jun 21st

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.

May 3rd

Emacs

quicklisp-systems stars25 - Search, browse and load Quicklisp systems from Emacs.

May 1st

Javascript

sigil stars2 - A Parenscript to

Apr 25th

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 stars261 - A project-local library installer, similar to Bundler or Carton. Expat.

Quicksys - install systems from multiple Quicklisp distributions. MIT.

Websockets

Portal stars13 - Portable websockets for Common Lisp using usocket. LLGPL.

Apr 14th

Crypto

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 stars175 - A Qt toolkit, based on CommonQt. zlib Also Qtools-ui stars27 (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 stars17 - 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 stars96 - A lenient HTML/XML parser, tolerant on malformed markup. zlib. Best used with lquery stars69 and clss stars24.

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 stars14 - A very simple task scheduling framework. zlib.

deeds stars19 - 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 stars49 - An extensible and cross-compatible testing framework. With test dependencies, conditions, fixtures and restarts. zlib.

Data validation

ratify stars22 - A collection of utilities to ratify, validate and parse inputs. zlib.

Documentation builders

Staple stars45 - 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 stars7 - 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

Game Development

Trial stars202 - 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 stars68 - A component-based game engine written in Common Lisp MIT.

Apr 10th

Shells, shells interfaces

Lish stars23 - 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 stars29 - Common Lisp and C++ interoperation with JIT. MIT.

Apr 4th

JSON

cl-json stars1 - A highly customizable JSON encoder and decoder. MIT.

Web frameworks

Snooze stars154 - 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.

Apr 3rd

Unit Testing

cl-mock stars13 - Another mocking library. It has more features than Mockingbird, like pattern matching on the mocked call, etc.

Apr 1st

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.

Actors pattern

👍 cl-gserver stars89 - an Erlang inspired GenServer. It is meant to encapsulate state, but also to execute async operations. Also with actors. Functionality regarding state is not unsimilar to Clojure's Agent or cl-actors. MIT.

Mar 22nd

Iteration

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

Feb 27th

Monitoring

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

Feb 12th

Isomorphic web frameworks

CLOG stars385 - 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.

Weblocks stars80 - A widgets-based framework with a built-in ajax update mechanism that "solves the JavaScript problem". LLGPL.

Feb 11th

XML

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

👍 has an incremental parser, allowing to parse big files.

Emacs

Emacs4CL stars180 - 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

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

Shells, shells interfaces

cmd stars40 - 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

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 stars54 - Data Frames for Common Lisp. BSD_2Clause.

rtg-math stars48 - 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

magicl stars162 - Matrix Algebra proGrams In Common Lisp based on BLAS/LAPACK and Expokit, by Rigetti Computing. BSD_3Clause.

lisp-matrix stars63 - A matrix package. FreeBSD.

Statistics

common-lisp-stat stars163 - Common Lisp statistics library. FreeBSD.

Utils

cmu-infix stars26 - A library for writing infix mathematical notation in Common Lisp. See also polisher stars3.

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.

Javascript

⭐ Parenscript - A translator from Common Lisp to Javascript. 3-clause BSD. See Trident-mode stars63, an Emacs mode that provides live interaction with the browser.unlicence.

paren6 stars14 - a set of ES6 macros for Parenscript.

Parallelism and Concurrency

calispel stars21 - 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

Date and time

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

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 stars6 - 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 stars33.

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

Nov 11th, 2020

Clojure

ABCLJ stars76 - 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 stars38 - 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 stars30 - a library that provides a numeric type with optional unit and/or uncertainty for computations with automatic error propagation. GPL2

Text Parsers

parseq stars18 - a library for parsing sequences such as strings and lists using parsing expression grammars. Inspired by Esrap. GPL2.

Compression / decompression

zippy stars7 - 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 stars239 - An HTTP client, that aims at replacing Drakma. MIT.

Job processing

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

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.

PDF

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

XML

xmls stars10 - A small, simple, non-validating XML parser. 3-clause BSD.

Oct 22nd, 2020

Graphics

cl-cuda stars246 - A library to use NVIDIA CUDA in Common Lisp programs. LLGPL.

Text Parsers

⭐ esrap stars47 - Packrat parser. Expat.

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 stars51 - An easily composable HTML5 generation library with the most simplistic syntax. MIT.

lsx stars70 and markup stars36 - Two JSX-like templating engines, where HTML tags are Common Lisp code. markup comes with an Emacs package.

Parallelism and Concurrency

STMX stars217 - High performance Transactional Memory for Common Lisp. LLGPL.

REPLs

sbcli stars55 - 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 stars39 - Interface and bindings to the Allegro 5 game programming library. zlib.

Oct 8th, 2020

C, C++

with-c-syntax stars104 - 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 stars905 - 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 stars10 - Additional dolist style macros for Common Lisp. MIT.

picl stars12 - 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 stars31 - 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 stars96 - a linter for Common Lisp source code using SBCL, suited for Reviewdog (slides). BSD_2Clause.

trivial-formatter stars22 - code formatter for Common Lisp. MIT.

Sep 15th, 2020

Non-deterministic, logic programming

Temperance stars46 - logic programming. MIT. A focus on performance, with General Game Playing in mind.

Sep 14th, 2020

APL

April stars317 - 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 stars37 - Python style generators for Common Lisp. Includes a port of itertools. Apache2.

Natural Language Processing

sparser stars36 - A natural language understanding system for English. Eclipse.

Regex

one-more-re-nightmare stars37 - a fast-ish regular expression compiler in Common Lisp. BSD_2Clause.

Shells, shells interfaces

Clesh stars54 - extends Common Lisp to embed shell code in a manner similar to perl's backtick. FreeBSD.

Text Parsers

cl-yacc stars46 - a LALR(1) parser generator. MIT.

cl-shlex stars6 - simple lexical analyzer for shell-like syntaxes. MIT.

smug stars91 - 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 stars9 - 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 stars98 - A bridge between Python and Common Lisp. The goal is that Lisp programs can use Python libraries. Not available on Quicklisp. MIT.

Changing the syntax

⭐ cl-interpol stars41 - A set of reader modifications to allow string interpolation. BSD.

Email

mailgun stars8 - A thin wrapper to post HTML emails through mailgun.com. unlicence.

Deployment

cube stars32 - 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.

Caching

clache stars5 - General caching facility. LLGPL.

Graph databases

facts stars37 - 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.

Iteration

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

Crypto

cl-ssh-keys stars6 - 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 stars5 - A JSON Pointer implementation. MIT.

Aug 17th, 2020

Graph databases

cl-agraph stars19, 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 stars33 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 stars9 - Homebrew formula builder for (command line) common lisp applications. Public domain.

Jul 11th, 2020

Others

👍 cl-forms stars25 - Web forms handling library for Common lisp. MIT.

Jul 10th, 2020

HTTP Servers

Hunchentoot plugins

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

Plotting

kai stars76 - A high-level plotter library for Common Lisp. A wrapper around the Plotly JS library. MIT.

cl-spark stars86 - sparkline strings for the console: (spark '(1 1 2 3 5 8)) => "▁▁▂▃▅▇". MIT.

Graph databases

vivace-graph stars112 - 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 stars164, restas stars247, SEXML stars21, Postmodern stars303, and more.

Jun 30th, 2020

Geany (experimental)

Geany-lisp stars8 is an experimental lisp mode for the Geany editor.

Jun 24th, 2020

Intermediate

Lisp Tips - 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 10th, 2020

Beginner

Lisp Koans stars2.9k - The project guides the learner progressively through many Common Lisp language features.

Apr 30th, 2020

Migration tools

cl-migratum stars18 - a system which provides facilities for performing database schema migrations, designed to work with various databases. BSD_3Clause.

postmodern-passenger-pigeon stars5 - a migration manager for postmodern. No licence specified.

Apr 21st, 2020

Job processing

SBCL's timers, system-wide event schedulers.

Apr 14th, 2020

HTML generators and templates

TEN stars18 - the completness of Djula meets the usability of Eco. MIT.

Writing, running scripts

clawk stars37 - an AWK implementation embedded into Common Lisp, to search files for lines and perform specified actions on its fields. BSD-style.

ScriptL stars65 - 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

Readline, ncurses and other graphical helpers

replic stars23 - 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 stars23 - print colorized text, horizontal lines, progress bars, (un)ordered lists and tables on ANSI-compliant terminals. GPL3.

Shells, shells interfaces

Shelly stars66 - 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

Adams stars143 - UNIX system administration in Common Lisp. Not unlike Ansible, Chef or Puppet. ISC.

Other scripting utilities

WCL stars62 [staled] - allow hundreds of Lisp

XML

Buildnode stars17 - A common lisp library to ease interaction with CXML-dom, such as building Excel spreadsheets. BSD.

Mar 17th, 2020

Erlang

CLERIC stars35 - a Common Lisp Erlang Interface. An implementation of the Erlang distribution protocol, comparable with erl_interface and jinterface. MIT.

Apps

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

Mar 10th, 2020

Vim & Neovim

Vlime stars317 - VLIME: Vim plus Lisp Is Mostly Evil. A Common Lisp dev environment for Vim (and Neovim). MIT.

Community

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

Mar 5th, 2020

GUI

cl-cffi-gtk stars33 - Binding for GTK+3. GNU LGPL2.1.

Deployment

s2i-lisp stars29 - 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

Matrix libraries

clem stars38 - a matrix library. BSD_2Clause.

REPLs

magic-ed stars19 - 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.

Security

cl-isolated stars22 - A restricted environment for Common Lisp code evaluation AGPL-3.0.

Feb 19th, 2020

Monitoring

cl-sentry-client stars13 - a Sentry client for Common Lisp, the cloud-based error monitoring system. MIT.

Feb 15th, 2020

Graphics

cl-jpeg stars17 - Baseline JPEG encoder and decoder library. 3-clause BSD.

Feb 11th, 2020

C

cl-bindgen stars20 - A command line tool and library for creating Common Lisp language bindings from C header files. MIT.

C, C++

Software-Evolution-Library stars95 - The SEL enables the programmatic modification and evaluation of software (C/C++ support using Clang, compiled assembler, and linked ELF binaries). GPL3.

Feb 5th, 2020

Readline, ncurses and other graphical helpers

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

Feb 3rd, 2020

Iteration

gmap - 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

Numerical and Scientific

array-operations stars38 - a collection of functions and macros for manipulating Common Lisp arrays and performing numerical calculations with them. MIT.

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