Common Lisp Open Source Projects

Browse 302 Common Lisp open source projects, ranked by GitHub stars. Find the most popular Common Lisp tools and libraries.

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10,960 stars

atlas-engineer/nyxt

Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

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Stars10,960
7,488 stars

norvig/paip-lisp

Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"

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Stars7,488
6,472 stars

dimitri/pgloader

Migrate to PostgreSQL in a single command!

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Stars6,472
3,872 stars

froggey/Mezzano

An operating system written in Common Lisp

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Stars3,872
3,462 stars

open-goal/jak-project

Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series

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Stars3,462
3,196 stars

google/lisp-koans

Common Lisp Koans is a language learning exercise in the same vein as the ruby koans, python koans and others. It is a port of the prior koans with some modifications to highlight lisp-specific features. Structured as ordered groups of broken unit tests, the project guides the learner progressively through many Common Lisp language features.

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Stars3,196
3,134 stars

viebel/klipse

Klipse is a JavaScript plugin for embedding interactive code snippets in tech blogs.

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Stars3,134
3,003 stars

lem-project/lem

General-purpose editor/IDE with high expansibility in Common Lisp

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Stars3,003
2,958 stars

CodyReichert/awesome-cl

A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.

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Stars2,958
2,776 stars

clasp-developers/clasp

clasp Common Lisp environment

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Stars2,776
2,130 stars

sbcl/sbcl

Mirror of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)'s official repository

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Stars2,130
2,095 stars

reddit-archive/reddit1.0

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Stars2,095
2,063 stars

slime/slime

The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs

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Stars2,063
2,021 stars

stumpwm/stumpwm

The Stump Window Manager

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Stars2,021
1,893 stars

roswell/roswell

intended to be a launcher for a major lisp environment that just works.

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Stars1,893
1,748 stars

rabbibotton/clog

CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

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Stars1,748
1,716 stars

coalton-lang/coalton

Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.

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Stars1,716
1,597 stars

inconvergent/weird

Generative art in Common Lisp

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Stars1,597
1,496 stars

vydd/sketch

A Common Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design, game prototyping, game making, computer graphics, exploration of human-computer interaction, and more.

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Stars1,496
1,427 stars

joaotavora/sly

Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE

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Stars1,427
1,384 stars

fukamachi/woo

A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev

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Stars1,384
1,297 stars

abo-abo/lispy

Short and sweet LISP editing

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Stars1,297
1,149 stars

robert-strandh/SICL

A fresh implementation of Common Lisp

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Stars1,149
1,137 stars

Shirakumo/trial

A modular Common Lisp game engine

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Stars1,137
1,109 stars

fukamachi/clack

Web server abstraction layer for Common Lisp

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Stars1,109
1,060 stars

LispCookbook/cl-cookbook

The Common Lisp Cookbook

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Stars1,060
955 stars

jscl-project/jscl

A Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler bootstrapped from Common Lisp

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Stars955
942 stars

Clozure/ccl

Clozure Common Lisp

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Stars942
917 stars

cl21/cl21

Common Lisp in the 21st Century.

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Stars917
896 stars

eudoxia0/cmacro

Lisp macros for C

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Stars896
885 stars

cbaggers/cepl

Code Evaluate Play Loop

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Stars885
821 stars

fukamachi/caveman

Lightweight web application framework for Common Lisp.

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Stars821
766 stars

portacle/portacle

A portable common lisp development environment

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Stars766
749 stars

inconvergent/snek

See https://github.com/inconvergent/weir instead

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Stars749
743 stars

edicl/hunchentoot

Web server written in Common Lisp

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Stars743
735 stars

damelang/nile

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Stars735
697 stars

Shirakumo/kandria

A post-apocalyptic actionRPG. Now on Steam!

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Stars697
690 stars

woodrush/lambda-8cc

x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus

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Stars690
661 stars

numcl/numcl

Numpy clone in Common Lisp

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Stars661
658 stars

phantomics/april

The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp.

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Stars658
650 stars

melisgl/mgl

Common Lisp machine learning library.

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Stars650
650 stars

kaveh808/kons-9

Common Lisp 3D Graphics Project

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Stars650
646 stars

azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies

Awesome Lisp Companies

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Stars646
637 stars

inconvergent/weir

(deprecated) A system for making generative systems

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Stars637
590 stars

whily/yalo

Lisp OS running on bare metal x86-64 hardware (WIP)

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Stars590
588 stars

sharplispers/cormanlisp

Corman Lisp

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Stars588
584 stars

McCLIM/McCLIM

An implementation of the Common Lisp Interface Manager, version II

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Stars584
569 stars

fukamachi/qlot

A project-local library installer for Common Lisp

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Stars569
554 stars

shinh/sedlisp

Lisp implementation in sed

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Stars554
548 stars

eratosthenesia/lispc

"Lispsy" Lisp(ish) to C Converter (designed for CLISP)

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Stars548
517 stars

marcoheisig/Petalisp

Elegant High-Performance Computing

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Stars517
505 stars

ruricolist/serapeum

Utilities beyond Alexandria

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Stars505
501 stars

eudoxia0/corvus

Low-level Lisp for LLVM

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Stars501
492 stars

quil-lang/quilc

The optimizing Quil compiler.

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Stars492
490 stars

cffi/cffi

The Common Foreign Function Interface

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Stars490
486 stars

vlime/vlime

A Common Lisp dev environment for Vim (and Neovim)

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Stars486
479 stars

kovisoft/slimv

Official mirror of Slimv versions released on vim.org

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Stars479
457 stars

ashok-khanna/lisp-notes

Repo for Common Lisp by Example and all other useful resources I found online

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Stars457
456 stars

quil-lang/qvm

The high-performance and featureful Quil simulator.

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Stars456
448 stars

Interlisp/medley

The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Wiki, Issues are here. Other repositories include maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources)

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