Common Lisp implementations

SBCL

Steel Bank Common Lisp is a high performance Common Lisp compiler. It is open source, with a permissive license. Besides the compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp, it provides an interactive environment with a debugger, a statistical profiler, a code coverage tool and many other extensions. SBCL runs on a number of POSIX platforms, and on Windows.

docker run --rm -it clfoundation/sbcl

Clozure CL

Clozure CL (CCL for short) is a free Common Lisp implementation with a long history. It is known for its fast compilation, native threads, a precise, generational, compacting garbage collector and a convenient foreign-function interface. It is distributed under the Apache License, version 2.0.

docker run --rm -it clfoundation/ccl

ECL

Embeddable Common Lisp implements the language with an interpreter and a translator to C that can produce standalone executables and libraries to embed in other programs. It runs on Linux, the BSDs, macOS, Solaris and Windows, on Intel, ARM and other processors.

docker run --rm -it clfoundation/ecl

ABCL

Armed Bear Common Lisp is a full implementation of the language with both an interpreter and a compiler, running on the JVM. It supports JSR-223, so it can be the scripting engine of any Java application, and its Java integration lets parts of an application be written in Lisp.

docker run --rm -it clfoundation/abcl

Clasp

Clasp interoperates seamlessly with C++ libraries and programs, using LLVM to compile to native code. It opens a vast array of existing libraries, such as those of scientific computing, to Lisp's rapid prototyping and incremental development.

docker run --rm -it clfoundation/clasp

CLISP

CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible and Michael Stoll. It implements the language described in the ANSI standard, with many extensions.

docker run --rm -it clfoundation/clisp

CMUCL

CMU Common Lisp is a free, high-performance implementation that runs on most major Unix platforms. Its compiler, Python, is the ancestor of SBCL's.

docker run --rm -it clfoundation/cmucl

GCL

GNU Common Lisp compiles Lisp to C and hands it to the system's C compiler for native code. It is the GNU project's Common Lisp, and a long-standing host of the Maxima computer algebra system and the ACL2 theorem prover.

Allegro CL

Allegro CL® is a powerful dynamic object-oriented development system, especially suited to enterprise-wide, complex application development, with applications of billions of objects in fields from the life sciences to manufacturing to financial analytics.

LispWorks

LispWorks® is an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp for Windows, Linux, macOS and other platforms, source-compatible across all of them. It offers an advanced compiler, the CAPI portable GUI toolkit and the LispWorks IDE.