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24 alternatives to Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format
I started this project back in 2015, to translate the TeX original specification into an easily parsed format (s-doc), and to create an HTML rendering of that format as a proof of concept. The project is homed here: https://codeberg.org/dlowe/metaspectre/ Differences from the Hyperspec (from the README): - Most importantly, it is free to modify and distribute. - The original TeX is very hard to parse and use for things other than generating a printed copy. The Hyperspec is an HTML rendering which can be parsed as HTML, but loses a lot of information. The Metaspec has…
Metaspec is a machine-readable translation of the DPANS3 Common Lisp specification into S-expressions and HTML format. Created for developers and language implementers, it converts the original TeX specification into… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
- 1IW
The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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2025 · turtleware.eu · its alternatives →
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The notebook-style Common Lisp environment. Contribute to tamamu/darkmatter development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4RL
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DOM to Semantic-Markdown for use with LLMs. Contribute to romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rust but Lisp▲218Rust but LISP. Contribute to ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I originally built “html-to-markdown” back in 2018 (while still in high school) to handle complex HTML conversions where other libraries struggled. Now, I’ve released v2 — a complete rewrite designed to handle even more edge cases. It supports entire websites with a high accuracy. Example use: I’ve used it in my RSS reader to strip HTML down to clean Markdown, similar to the "Reader Mode" in your Browser. It can be used as a Golang package or as an CLI. Give it a try & tell me what edge cases you encounter!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Implementation of the standard is still not complete, but breakpoints and stepping work quite well! It also has some support for watchpoints, that no implementation has. Now it ships with ASDF and is capable of loading systems! Let me know if you like it. Support on Patreon or Liberapay is much appreciated
2025 · savannah.nongnu.org · its alternatives →
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I created this because sometimes I want more than rlwrap but less than emacs. icl aims to hit that middle sweet spot. It's a terminal application with context-aware auto-complete, an interactive object inspector, auto-indentation, syntax colouring, persistent history, and much more. It uses sly to communicate with the child lisp process and aims to be compatible with any sly-supporting implementation. I hope others find it useful!
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Next-level syntax for C-like languages :). Contribute to kiselgra/c-mera development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 11TD
2019 · opendocs.github.io · its alternatives →
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A Language Server Protocol (LSP) implementation for systemd unit files, providing editing support with syntax highlighting, diagnostics, autocompletion, and documentation made with rust.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Moved to Forgejo! Contribute to krig/LISP development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 14IM
2013 · lispwebtales.ppenev.com · its alternatives →
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A lisp dialect based on pattern matching and term rewriting - abuseofnotation/termlisp
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Self-rendering Markdown + LaTeX documents. Contribute to susam/texme development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 17ID
2013 · rhoscript.com · its alternatives →
- 18CL
A month or so ago, I ported a Common Lisp implementation (npt) to WebAssembly to make a silly blog post, because I was bored and have a lot of time on my hands to waste with things like this (I don't have a job, and because I have next to no experience, these meaningless, silly projects tend to fill what time I do have). This is significant as it's the first time Common Lisp in particular has ever been hosted on it; wasm has a few poor decisions in its design that make it less-than-conducive to being a target for Common Lisp, and a lot of the more interesting implementations require an…
2022 · soi-disant.srht.site · its alternatives →
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Lisp-like-R: A clojure inspired lisp that compiles to R in R - dirkschumacher/llr
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Meta programming utilities for C++14. Merged in matt-42/lithium - matt-42/iod
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lisp in C#▲144a custom Lisp. Contribute to codr7/sharpl development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp - GitHub - codr7/whirlog: a minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lisp rosetta stone to demonstrate modern language features - eatonphil/lisp-rosetta-stone
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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