Installer abcl avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• abcl

Historique du projet

The official homepage says ABCL was originally started as a scripting language for the J editor. It later grew into a standalone Common Lisp implementation on the JVM, with support for JSR-223 so it can act as a Java scripting engine and with Java-to-Lisp integration APIs for embedding Lisp in Java applications.

Historique d'adoption

ABCL occupies a particular niche among Common Lisp implementations: it lets Lisp code run where a JVM is already the deployment target. The supplied package-manager metadata lists it in APK, Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, Nix, and Ubuntu, reflecting its role as both a language runtime and a Java ecosystem bridge.

Modes d'utilisation

Official documentation shows ABCL being run as a jar with java -jar abcl.jar, used as an interactive REPL, embedded from Java, and connected to Common Lisp tooling such as ASDF, Quicklisp, and SLIME.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Package maintainers care about ABCL because it is a Common Lisp runtime whose runtime contract is Java rather than a native Lisp image. That makes Java version support, jar layout, wrappers, ASDF integration, and contrib artifacts central packaging concerns.

Chronologie

• 2016: Official GitHub mirror/repository metadata shows the armedbear/abcl repository created.
• 2026: Official ABCL release archive lists 1.10.0 artifacts, including abcl.jar and abcl.pdf.

Related projects

• ABCL is tied historically to the J editor and operationally to the JVM, Java scripting APIs, ASDF, Quicklisp, and SLIME.

Sources

• Official homepage, FAQ repository section, README, releases index, GitHub repository metadata, and source_facts.package-manager.