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Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisp

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
3
observed span
2019–2022
peak thread · 52 comments
129 pts
latest 20+ return · 2022-06-07
119 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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I have long desired being able to run clojure code directly in my Common Lisp environment. Interop between clojure code and CL code would be much more interesting to me than the clojure/java interop. Yes, there's ABCL which does the CL/Java interop (and of course vanilla clojure has that built in), but I'm a big fan of the idea. And ruricolist has written (and maintained/forked) some nice libraries. In particular his FXML is the modern successor to cxml and plays…

slyrus·129-point thread·

The author has wide ranging interests: > The Ruricolist is mostly essays – 157 of them, such as: > > Uncut pages – on writing > Cell intelligence – on ideas > Laika – on dogs > Xerxes – on history > Civilizations – on history > Lead – on human nature > Roadkill – on death http://ruricolist.com/

bsima·119-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
260

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
60

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2019-11-25Cloture: Clojure in Common Lispruricolist50
2019-11-27Clojure in Common Lisptosh30
2019-11-28Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisptosh40
2020-02-13Cloture: Clojure in Common LispFirst breakout · Best threadruricolist12952
2022-06-07Cloture – Implementation of Clojure in Common LispLatest 20+ point returncapableweb1198