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Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser

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110 points jackdaniel | 2 comments | 21 Aug 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
1. octopoc ◴[21 Aug 25 14:02 UTC] No.44972924[source]▶
WebAssembly is about an improved Developer Experience. It lets us write in the languages we like :)

I can't say how many times I've reinvented pieces of Common Lisp to do my job. Now I want to start a side project with this.

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2. shadowgovt ◴[21 Aug 25 18:15 UTC] No.44976158[source]▶
My only concern with this approach from an ecosystem standpoint is that runtimes (and more importantly, their standard libraries) can be expensive. JS is still the heavyweight engine that everyone running a browser already has installed; a world where the browser has to download a novel runtime per website is going to be hard on the end-user on the back of a low-bandwidth connection.

... but it doesn't have to be that way. Proper tree-shaking of libraries and smart caching of common resources should make it possible for that cost to get minimized or amortized.