A simple Common Lisp web app
7 comments
·April 30, 2025jimbokun
silcoon
Author here: You're right! I did that in the article. First I showed how to use the modern libraries, then wrote a quick custom library that compressed my original app in 29 LOC[0].
[0]: It came out shorter than the guestbook demo in Python-Flask.
nomilk
This is a pretty great tutorial using common lisp libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4PzSsOD-CQ
(also, the top comment is gold)
silcoon
Josh Betts is a good bloke!
anonzzzies
Is it? This translates fairly exactly to things like nodejs/express implementing the same thing?
anonzzzies
I use CLOG these days; it's all so easy to get things done.
nesarkvechnep
It’s good but has nothing on Phoenix LiveView. I love Common Lisp but for web, I can’t choose it over Elixir.
Man that seems like an awful lot of ceremony for a trivial web app. Surely the language known for macros and building your own DSLs has a more concise way to get a web app up and running?