TOtosh·Dec 9, 2022Submission
CIEL Is an Extended Lisp. Batteries Included
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CIEL
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CIEL
CIEL Is an Extended Lisp. Scripting with batteries included.
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CIEL Is an Extended Lisp. Scripting with batteries included.
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Hi o/ Hopefully the goal of CIEL is well explained. I use it daily (with the core image, in my editor), I ship products with it. It saves me a load of time, when I start a new…
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3 sourcesHowdy, I just added scripting support.
$ ciel myscript.lisp
where we can use all the available libraries, it works instantly.
It's brand new, not many options right now ;)
> like janet-lang
I don't think so, since Janet advertises itself as an embedable Lisp like Lua or Guile (and ECL). But yes, in the sense it comes with batteries included. Like Babashka, I guess.
Thanks for your initial question!
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So, in CIEL scripts right now, we can make HTTP requests (dex:get or http:get), parse JSON, CSV etc, run shell commands (cmd:cmd, the "!" shortcut in the CIEL shell), or even
(defalias ! #'cmd:cmd)
(! "pwd")
and more.
https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/
In Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for ClojureNo, we have to build a binary, which starts up 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 is that it loads instantly with all these libraries built-in (instead of quickloading all of them when needed)
- a readline REPL, with completion, syntax highlighting and some goodies (a shell passthrough, quick doc lookup…), albeit it needs more love
- a lisp library which you can quickload like the rest, it just comes with a bunch of dependencies.
- I want to add scripting capacity too.
It ships libraries for: HTTP requests, file formats handling (JSON, XML, CSV, TOML…), shell utils, file utils, threads, a nice hash-table notation, DB access, plotting, str
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ings, other language extensions etc.
It is not finished but I am doog-fooding it for clients' projects.