<story><title>SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0</title><url>http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html#2.1.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Anyone here use SBCL or Common Lisp? Curious what you guys think of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heisig</author><text>I use Common Lisp for most of my daily programming, and SBCL is a big reason why.  Once you get over the initial hassle (getting used to the Emacs+SLIME tool chain and learning to read the compiler diagnostics) it really gives you the productivity of Python with the performance of C++.  And a lot of that performance is thanks to the tireless effort of the SBCL developers, who have been churning out a new release every few months for the last decades.&lt;p&gt;Kudos to all SBCL contributors!</text></comment>
<story><title>SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0</title><url>http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html#2.1.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Anyone here use SBCL or Common Lisp? Curious what you guys think of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>susam</author><text>I do. I post about it often here, so instead of repeating myself, I will add a few links to my earlier comments and posts here:&lt;p&gt;* Recommendations on learning Common Lisp: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25442155&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25442155&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* On Lisp communities on Reddit r&amp;#x2F;lisp and Freenode #lisp: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25543565&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25543565&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Observations on State of Common Lisp Survey 2020: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25291780&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25291780&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Lisp in Vim with Slimv&amp;#x2F;Vlime: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21735148&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21735148&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Emacs4CL (a tiny quick starter ~&amp;#x2F;.emacs): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25440690&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25440690&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like many others commenting here, I too use SBCL because of its good performance. I keep CLISP around mainly for nostalgia&amp;#x27;s sake. I began learning Common Lisp in Sep 2007 during a long layover at an airport using CLISP 2.41 on Debian 4.0 (Etch). Also, having another implementation helps me to test that my code is portable and does not rely on any SBCL-specific features.</text></comment>