When Apple left Clozure Common Lisp behind by switching to Apple Silicon, I started kicking around the idea of building my own Lisp/Objective-C bridge by combining Apple Documentation, the clang AST, and introspection of the Objective-C runtime. There was a CCL porting effort, but I really wanted to use SBCL anyway. Truth be told — what I really wanted was a 21st-century CLIM variant on top of modern AppKit 26. So I let that idea rattle around in my skull for a while — and eventually it bounced up against the memory of Ck (Curses-based Tk). Anybody remember that? I liked Tcl/Tk and [incr…

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