Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

&gt; Tip for Windows WSL linux user. Create a symbolic link from wslview to xdg-open in &#x2F;usr&#x2F;local&#x2F;bin so that run-tutorial uses the windows browser.<p>Oh huh, that&#x27;s just a good tip in general!

I&#x27;ve gone through and launched all 26 projects. It&#x27;s impressive how fully-featured this is.<p>I might even start using this for some of my own projects. A wonderful thing about Common Lisp is that the code you wrote ten years ago tends to keep working forever. That might not hold true here, since this project has to interface with browsers which tend to shift like the air, but I live in hope.

Is there much Common Lisp to this framework or is it incidental and something that could be in any language? I guess I don’t mind either way.<p>And does this just let you do html&#x2F;browser events in CL or does it have some solutions for dealing with the complexity of maintaining a correct view? I.e. is it trying to solve the problem that JavaScript is not CL, that JavaScript can’t easily access server resources, or the problem that react tries to solve?

along similar lines, there&#x27;s justpy for python: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justpy.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justpy.io&#x2F;</a><p>i prefer justpy&#x27;s approach because they work with vue on the frontend, taking advantage of all the work that has already been done on generating good browser UIs and just applying a python interface to it.

Interesting.<p>Does anyone know of a common lisp library similar to R&#x27;s shiny? It provides a simple way to define the UI elements and how they intereact with the user&#x27;s actions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shiny.rstudio.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;basics.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shiny.rstudio.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;basics.html</a><p>At some point I thought about porting the first release of shiny, which was relatively simple, and keep adding features but I realized that there is a lot of code in the javascript&#x2F;browser side and I would never find my way around it.<p>The most relevant thing I found was this clojure(script) reactive web framework from Kenny Tilton: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kennytilton&#x2F;matrix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kennytilton&#x2F;matrix</a>

This does look cool. I gotta wonder about the resource utilization though? I see the readme mentions the browser control is native, but it doesn&#x27;t specify if the whole thing can be compiled to native code with SBCL? The manual is impressive, but I didn&#x27;t see anything about compiling&#x2F;packaging.

Is this just one more Electron but with Lisp? It seems to require web-browser, thus not a real GUI framework.

This looks very cool! I can smell some smalltalk wafting through the veneer (this is a good thing!).

The cool idea is that you use language and environment of your choice without having to deal with any JS peculiarities. All the state is managed in whatever way is best inside your lisp code.

Not really suitable for an embedded device with lots of video&#x2F;graphics components like game consoles.

It look very retro in the screnshots - like the visual style of a 90s website crossed with windows 95.

Such a pity: it requires a web browser.

I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s not useful, but I swiftly pressed the back button when I read &quot;uses web technology.&quot;