Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9

I&#x27;m happy to see ECL&#x27;s restarted development! How many changes are between ECL and MKCL (MKCL was&#x2F;is an ECL fork)?<p>If I&#x27;m not mistaken, ECL is (one of a few) embeddable languages that can generate a C code and provide real threads, even if used as a library.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.common-lisp.net&#x2F;mkcl&#x2F;mkcl" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.common-lisp.net&#x2F;mkcl&#x2F;mkcl</a>

I like ECL for its ability to compile Lisp to C and have a native executable. One dream I have is to write a game using the CL-SDL2 bindings and cross compile it for Wasm; It seems possible to do now but the flow isn&#x27;t very well defined. I got pretty close hacking around a month or two ago but didn&#x27;t quite finish.

How does it compare to Janet <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;janet-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;janet-lang.org&#x2F;</a> ?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23164614">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23164614</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28255116">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28255116</a>

Exciting news! Last release was 2021.<p>Thanks to the dev team :)

I am just installing from source on the tiny Linux laptop I travel with. Until recently I always paid for a LispWorks Pro license, but after retiring check out dropped that and am just using SBCL. I like the idea of having a &quot;second Common Lisp&quot; so I want to try out a Emacs+Slime workflow.

It would be interesting to see if writing &quot;shell scripts&quot; in ECL and compiling to small static binaries would work in terms of startup and execution speed.

Tangential: I wanted to embed a sane sandboxed scripting language in a node app and found… nothing. Only options were a completely broken node sub vm, half-broken js sandbox which isn’t maintained and slightly less half broken js sandbox?<p>Does everyone roll their own when they need to embed logic expressions in their yamls?