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CIEL Is an Extended Lisp. Scripting with batteries included.
13 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2022-12-09 · latest 2026-01-02
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> so many shortcomings and missing features I suggest to have a look at CIEL: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ -> CL, with batteries out of the box: http, json, csv, DB, functional data structures, regexp, pattern matching, missing…
comment by vindarel · 2026-01-02 · in Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy -
…(managing a hidden multicall binary) to make Lisp scripting efficient and ergonomic. - CIEL https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ - CIEL Is an Extended Lisp is a collection of dozens of libraries useful for mundane tasks (HTTP, JSON,…
comment by vindarel · 2025-10-12 · in Show HN: A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting -
…agree. CLISP's REPL is beginner friendly, but we shall not advise it today. I'm doing this: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ Common Lisp with batteries included. The terminal REPL has completion and syntax highlighting. You can run…
comment by vindarel · 2025-06-07 · in Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp -
…for development, deployment and monitoring! --- Today I fixed a few issues and released a v0.2: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/releases/tag/v02 The key point is that CIEL should be much easier to install, specially on Mac. We now rely…
comment by vindarel · 2024-08-30 · in CIEL Is an Extended Lisp -
…libraries that you can quickload or use with a core image (for a fast startup in your editor). https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ http://ciel-lang.org/ It’s in beta, polishing phase.
comment by vindarel · 2024-05-23 · in Common Lisp for shell scripting (2021) -
> quick python-like scripting since we're at it, why not a batteries-included Common Lisp: https://github.com/ciel-lang/ciel it comes as a binary that starts fast and that includes libraries for mundane tasks. (for more CL<->Python if…
comment by vindarel · 2024-05-12 · in Homoiconic Python -
and for CL: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ (pre-alpha) CL with many batteries included (json, csv, http, CLI parser…) so the scripts start fast.
comment by vindarel · 2023-09-06 · in Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp (2021) -
As a CL addict, this isn't unlike Babashka: fast-starting CL scripting with batteries included. https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL (alpha) (otherwise the solution is to build a binary)
comment by vindarel · 2023-08-06 · in Sharpscript: Lisp for Scripting -
…databases, HTTP client, CLI args, language extensions…), I am putting up this collection together: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ It can be used as a normal Quicklisp library, or as a core image (it then starts up instantly) or as a…
comment by vindarel · 2023-07-27 · in It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp -
I quite agree, so I'm making a meta-library to have useful libraries available out of the box: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ It's CL, batteries included. You can use it as a library, as a core CL image (loads up faster), and as a…
comment by vindarel · 2023-02-23 · in Common Lisp Implementations in 2023 -
…(cmd:cmd, the "!" shortcut in the CIEL shell), or even (defalias ! #'cmd:cmd) (! "pwd") and more. https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/
comment by vindarel · 2022-12-09 · in Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure -
…super quickly. I began to put together a "distribution" of useful CL libraries for everyday tasks: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ It comes as: - a lisp core, which you can use in your editor setup instead of sbcl or ccl, the advantage…
comment by vindarel · 2022-12-09 · in Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure