SMRTR ProgrammingAug 21, 2025Hacker News

Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser

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WECL (Web Embeddable Common Lisp) enables running Common Lisp inside web browsers through WebAssembly. Users can script websites with CL, interact with JavaScript through a foreign function interface, and even connect to Emacs via LIME/SLUG for a REPL experience. Despite current limitations like lack of threading and optimization, the project allows developers to inject Common Lisp into any website.

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