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cl-sdl2
Common Lisp2015–2023
lispgames / cl-sdl2

cl-sdl2

Common Lisp bindings for SDL2 using C2FFI.

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What it is

Common Lisp bindings for SDL2 using C2FFI.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-06-26 21:55:25 UTC to 2023-06-10 20:31:01 UTC.

0122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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baggers·Apr 12, 2018
I'm biased but I'd go Common Lisp The basics: - SBCL: generates fast[0] code. runs well on windows - Quicklisp: The package manager which lets you install the packages mentioned below I've got a video here that should help with getting set up on windows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWVu8VVDbI&t=1s Then you could try the SDL2 approach: - cl-sdl2: Bindings over sdl2 https://github.com/lispgames/cl-sdl2 - cl-sdl2-mixer: audio playback https://github.com/lispgames/cl-sdl2-mixer - Some basic math library like: 3d-matrices, rtg-math, sb-cga Or maybe an existing engine: - https://github.com/borodust/trivial-gamekit Come down to #lispgames on freenode if you need a hand as there is usually someone there who has touched this stuff[1] I'll also pimp my own stuff while I'm here just in case someone is looking for a lispy layer over gl - https://
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github.com/cbaggers/cepl Main downside of Common Lisp is that Emacs or Vim are pretty much a requirement to get a nice development environment, without which you are pretty much in 'writing Java in notepad' territory. [0] for some definition of fast that I don't want to belabor this comment with.
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