Search Results: Lisp

The ACM's History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conferences offer a rare retrospective on pivotal languages that shaped computing. By examining the languages featured in HOPL II (1993), III (2007), and IV (2021), this analysis reveals enduring trends and seismic shifts in software development priorities.

While Kubernetes ingress dominates cloud-native discussions, egress traffic often operates in the dark. A developer demonstrates how deploying the decades-old Squid proxy with Kubernetes Network Policies provides immediate visibility into outbound connections—without complex service meshes. This minimalist approach answers critical security questions about external communications while revealing why enterprises eventually outgrow it.

At EmacsConf 2025, developer Scott Zimmermann unveiled Swanky—an Emacs-based Python environment inspired by Lisp's SLIME. The tool enables real-time code inspection and debugging without restarting processes, promising to transform Python development workflows with Lisp-like interactivity.

The Common Lisp X toolkit Barium unveils its feature-packed 0.2 release, introducing menus, panes, dialogs, and a sophisticated event loop for asynchronous programming. This update marks significant progress in building native desktop applications with Lisp, emphasizing performance and developer flexibility.

The Shen programming language emerged from a three-decade evolution tackling fundamental challenges in declarative programming and type systems. Its journey—from the Common Lisp-based SEQUEL through Qi to the portable Shen—reveals hard-won breakthroughs in type theory implementation and cross-platform design.

Discover how Eask transforms Emacs Lisp from an editor scripting language into a viable runtime environment capable of dependency management and CI/CD automation. This CLI tool solves Emacs' shared-environment limitations, freeing developers to run Elisp programs like Python or Node.js scripts.