[IshKebab]

> solved problem

except...

> mostly works

> requires some tweaking

> discoverable if...

I know nothing about Clojure but from your caveats I think I can see why he spent hours banging his head against a wall.

[chii]

when engineers say it's a solved problem, they mean it in the same way as a mathematician saying a theorem is trivially proved.

[iLemming]

> theorem is trivially proved

Reminded me Prof. Knuth trolling in "The Art Of Computer Programming" with an exercise for the reader to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. (:

[macmac]

Look at the hoops OP had to jump through to get SBCL working on Windows. I think Graal would compared favourably with that.

[IshKebab]

Probably, but that doesn't mean Graal is good; it just means they're both bad.

Compare it to something like Go or Rust where there are no hoops and they're both well supported on Windows and Mac. I haven't actually used it but I believe Zig has very good cross platform support too.

[no_wizard]

if I recall correctly Rust support for windows still has issues, namely there are a number of Windows specific APIs that are either not well supported or aren’t supported at all.

I could be mistaken or recalling outdated information of course, but that is what I remember from the last time I looked into it

[anthk]

What did you mean? Can't the user just download Portacle and use it?

https://portacle.github.io/

Problem solved.

[chii]

Right at the top of the article, the author outlines the requirement was that it must be usable within vim.

[anthk]

Not an issue for Common Lisp, you can use whatever you like, but interacting with a REPL gives you superpowers.

[macmac]

Not really. OP needs to build executables. It is documented here: https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/release-common-lisp-on-your-f...

[vindarel]

Portacle ships SBCL so one can build executables when using Portacle.