What Lisp For Mac

I'd go with Racket. It may not be as fast as SBCL, but it does have excellent libraries and documentation, as well as an integrated environment that's designed to get you developing and running Scheme programs right out of the gate. What I really like about Racket's IDE, DrRacket, is what you don't have to do—you don't have to learn Emacs, you don't have to learn SLIME, you don't have to worry about hunting down third-party libraries, as virtually all libraries meant for Racket can be found in. All in all, it really cuts down on the learning curve and allows you to focus on the actual task at hand: writing great code. Also, it comes with a if you want to make Racket-powered websites (which I'm currently looking into).

For Scheme, is awesome (included in ). For Common Lisp, is great.

A single dmg with SBCL, Aquamacs and Slime working out of the box. From the Web site: Ready Lisp is a binding together of several popular Common Lisp packages especially for Mac OS X, including: Aquamacs, SBCL and SLIME. Once downloaded, you’ll have a single application bundle which you can double-click — and find yourself in a fully configured Common Lisp REPL. It’s ideal for OS X users who want to try out the beauty of Common Lisp with a minimum of hassle. It could also be used by teachers to give their Mac students a free, complete Common Lisp environment to take home with them. Requirements The current version of Ready Lisp is 20090127 and requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). It includes the following component software versions: Aquamacs 1.6 SBCL 1.0.24 SLIME 2009-01-23 CL-FAD 0.6.2 CL-PPCRE 2.0.1 LOCAL-TIME 0.9.3 SERIES 2.2.10 CL HyperSpec 7.0 paredit.el 20 redshank.el 1 cldoc.el 1.16.

I'm a huge fan of Clojure, SBCL, and Clozure CL. They are all fantastic, but they are also overkill if all you want to do is refresh your Lisping chops. They all require absurd amounts of info hunting, mailing list searching, package installing, irc lurking, etc. Dr Scheme just installs and runs. I finished the first 3 chapters of SICP four and half years ago using Dr Scheme. Nothing was more profound than defining a Scheme evaluator in itself.

Once you get your head around that you'll have a lot more patience for the industrial strength brethren. I do recommend Racket to new-comers, since it provides one of the nicest IDE's for Scheme beginners (or rather, programming beginners who happen to be using Scheme, or better still, working their way through HtDP). Another option, for people who are more interested in a small Scheme system in order to modify it themselves or read its source code, is Larceny Scheme, which is of interest largely because its JIT compiler, Twobit, is itself implemented entirely in Scheme.

Update: In addition, Chez Scheme has recently been open sourced: (It may not be as 'small' as Larceny, but it has a very aggressive optimizing compiler.). If you're just hobby programming, LispWorks has a free, personal version which is quite powerful and sophisticated.

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It's biggest issue is a run time limit of several hours. So, you won't be writing any long running servers in it, but that doesn't mean it's not a useful tool. CLISP runs on most everything, and is quite nice actually, it just doesn't do threads. (Important if you want to write an actual server, but as PHP and Perl have shown us, Apache + insert language is a very viable platform.). I've been asking myself the same question lately.

Having used DrScheme on OS X it would be my first choice of Scheme distribution for any platform. Very nice IDE, debugging features and a good set of libraries/frameworks (including a very nice GUI toolkit that 'just works. Even on Mac';-) ) However, I'm now looking for a similarly comfortable environment for Common Lisp. It came down to CCL (OpenMCL) versus SBCL.

SBCL seems to be the popular choice but I read that on OS X is doesn't support threading. (Is this really an issue?). Clozure CL, on the other hand, boasts good support for native threads, the obcj-bridge, etc. I'm finding CCL a little odd but I'm going to stick at it for a while - It still looks like the logical choice for integration.

I use Emacs 23 (built from source using -with-ns) and Slime as an environment and this works well for me.:-).

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