Apps like Raycast, KRunner, Alfred, and Spotlight are commonly called Application Launchers. They’re so much more than that though. If you really about it — They’re really GUI Command Lines. GCL for short.

#raycast #AlfredApp #KRunner #spotlight #GCL

Holy crap #gcl is public now! https://gcl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scoping.html
Since when? I’m so excited y’all. I was just about to give a tutorial on dynamic configuration languages with some examples I have of building local and cloud environments driven by jsonnet, but now that gcl is open source and it’s got good Python integration, I can’t wait to redo some examples with it. They should get even simpler and maybe look less fancy than my wild functional list-compy lazy jsonnet :) (gcl can be a little stricter but clearer and probably a lot easier for non-lispers and non-haskellers to pick up!). Nix and dhall and jsonnet are wonderful, but kind of caters to us lambda heads and/or applied category theory and type theory nerds). GCL is definitely more accessible. At any rate, some kind of configuration language with similar philosophies is *the* best known way to tame configuration sprawl and madness!
Scoping rules and their consequences — gcl 0.6.9 documentation

@Anthronet SO Horrible! But I fear events like this will become the norm. I’ve been reading on the possibilities of consequences of #GCL global climate change since it began being covered in #RollingStoneMagazine in the 80s then (VP)? Gore-thru #BillMckibben. I expect in your field one learns that cycles like these are natural- but I’m a believer that man has hastened this one 🥺

@tetrislife
Thank you!

I run #Gentoo in VPS, NAS and #Framework Laptop. I like it very much because there are always choices in Gentoo.

Yeah, I also thought #GCL was dead. Sometimes I write small tools in #CommonLisp, I also have a little #raylib Common Lisp library in Github.

I code in Erlang for daily job. Erlang is a little simpler than C++. I used to code in C++ for my previous job.

@defcfun hi there. Interesting profile.

I went back to #Debian -based systems after a little period on #Gentoo; I really appreciated USE flags but could never predict what an update would do.

I also saw a boost of a #GCL release; I didn't know it was still being developed! Personally, I have gone from being a fan of #CommonLisp to actually learning #Prolog (with #Logtalk) instead.

Also a big #Erlang fan, which is how I ended up at Prolog actually.

GCL-SI scores PVEL top performer status for fifth consecutive year


GCL System Integration has been recognised as a top performer within t...
Article Source: https://www.pv-tech.org/gcl-si-scores-pvel-top-performer-status-for-fifth-consecutive-year/

#gcl-si, #2021, #testing, #news, #module, #reliability, #pvel
GCL-SI scores PVEL top performer status for fifth consecutive year - PV Tech

GCL System Integration has been recognised as a top performer within the PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) module reliability scorecard for a fifth consecutive year.

PV Tech

I guess, while I am at it, which #lisp #commonlisp should I settle on

#ClozureCL, #GnuCommonLisp #gcl, #Clisp, #SteelBankCommonLisp (#sbcl)