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GNU Common Lisp

GCL is the official Common Lisp for the GNU project.

Top 5 Open-Source Alternatives to GNU Common Lisp

Steel Bank Common Lisp Clozure Common Lisp Racket Lang Python Clojure

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to GNU Common Lisp are Steel Bank Common Lisp, Clozure Common Lisp, and Racket Lang. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a high performance Common Lisp compiler.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Programming Language #OOP #IDE 5 social mentions

  2. Clozure CL (often called CCL for short) is a free Common Lisp implementation with a long history.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Programming Language #IDE #OOP 5 social mentions

  3. Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) is a modern programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, suitable...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 91 social mentions

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    Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 280 social mentions

  5. Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 36 social mentions

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