[WillAdams]

I've always wondered what would have happened if the first "Interface Builder"

>Jean-Marie Hullot created "SOS Interface" in Lisp for the Macintosh while working at INRIA (1984) which was the first modern "interface builder."

https://denninginstitute.com/itcore/userinterface/GUIHistory...

had become a mainstream Mac product rather than being co-opted for NeXT and use w/ Objective-C.

LISP clicked with me (when taking a comparative language class in college I was the only one who managed to do all of the LISP homework) and learning it was a lot of help in using TeX.

I just wish that there was:

- a nice native or cross-platform GUI toolkit for it which was opensource

- an easy way to distribute projects as stand-alone compiled code

[anthk]

GUI: MCClim, but it's a bit rusty/Motif like/Tk Life.

Deploy: SBCL can build standalone binaries I think.

[WillAdams]

If SBCL can build stand-alone binaries using MCClim, I know what my next personal project will be.

[anthk]

Get Quicklisp and after that, Ultralisp because the last CLX library it's much faster even on shitty computers las my n270 netbook. Under ECL it almost ran without lag (just a slight one), and with SBCL it was almost as fast as Tk under TCL.