☯ Excavated Lisp

This is a little assortment of places where I’ve found Lisp is in the world:

Note: Some of these might be stretches, but I want to show the general, influence that my favourite language has had on the world

• Autodesk uses AutoLisp as a scripting language for their products

• Their forums sometimes help me solve CL stuff as well

• SCI engine used for Sierra adventure games uses an object oriented Lisp

• Kandria a new indie game developed in CL

• Spycursion is a CL game in development by (defun games ())

• GCC creates many different trees during compilation, some of the later ones are outputted in Lisp list syntax

• Guix is a package manager written in Scheme, capable of running a distro (it leans on the Nix daemon to run the builds, which is sadly C++)

• Shepherd is an Init system written in Guile Scheme

• GNU utilities either do now or plan to ship with extensibility through Guile Scheme (writing inline Lisp in makefiles for example)

• This article on Grammarly states that

  • Grammarly uses Common Lisp in production
  • Hipmunk uses Lisp
  • The London underground somehow uses Lisp

• Another article confirms the above and adds more

  • Boeing 747 and 777 for both internal software and
  • Boeing and Airbus apparently use Piano
    • which is a CL program for aircraft design
  • Circle CI
  • Hacker News is written in Arc
  • Franz Inc. uses CL heavily for data analysis

• The original Zork was written in a very simple Lisp

• Reddit 1.0 was written in Common Lisp: Github

• If you can setup the database should be perfectly runnable today

• pgloader got a rewrite in Common Lisp[a] around 2014 for performance reasons: Link

• Quil is a language (and associated Quantum Virtual Machine) written in Common Lisp

• Mezzano is a working operating system written in pure CL

  • Even boots on my hardware and runs absolutely smooth