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Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

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Resurfaced independently across 2 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2021–2023
peak thread · 29 comments
163 pts
latest 20+ return · 2023-06-29
157 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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> Tip for Windows WSL linux user. Create a symbolic link from wslview to xdg-open in /usr/local/bin so that run-tutorial uses the windows browser. Oh huh, that's just a good tip in general!

I've wanted to use this for a while, but I've always wanted something not requiring a web browser and not a pain to set up on SBCL (McCLIM has one dependency that always causes compilation errors, but I forgot it's name since it's been a while since I've tried using McCLIM on SBCL -- in the end I use CCL for anything CLIM-related). This also rules out using Qt at all. No idea about GTK but CFFI bugs in Lisp…

koito17·157-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
326

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
47

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2021-01-18Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUIsimonpure30
2021-02-06Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUIjoubert30
2021-11-10Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUIFirst breakout · Best threadpodiki16329
2023-06-29Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUILatest 20+ point returnmarcodiego15718