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by jlarocco 15 days ago
On a related note, there's a cross-platform Common Lisp package, "Bike" https://github.com/Lovesan/bike, that lets you use .Net assemblies from Common Lisp.

I've used it a tiny bit at work (on Windows) and at home (on Linux), and ran into one issue with "out" parameters, but otherwise it works really well.

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That's just crazy! (in a good way) I've been in software since 1998 and it's like I've just uncovered a whole new world.
What about this one? https://github.com/dotcl/dotcl

> Common Lisp implementation on .NET. Lisp source is compiled to CIL (Common Intermediate Language) and runs on the .NET JIT — so the same Lisp image runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux across x86-64 and ARM64 without per-platform porting work.

Thanks! I don't think I've seen that one.