clasp-developers/clasp

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Clasp is a Common Lisp implementation that compiles to native code via LLVM and seamlessly interoperates with C++ libraries and programs. It supports the standard Common Lisp ecosystem (SLIME, ASDF, Quicklisp, CFFI) and targets scientific computing use cases.

Use cases

• implement a common lisp environment
• call c++ libraries from lisp
• rapid prototyping with lisp and native code
• scientific computing with common lisp
• compile lisp to native code with llvm

When to choose

• you need Common Lisp with tight C++ interop
• you want LLVM-based native code compilation for Lisp
• you're doing scientific computing and want Lisp's incremental development

When to avoid

• you need a mainstream, widely-supported Lisp implementation like SBCL
• you need Windows support
• you can't afford heavy build requirements (8+ GB RAM, long compile times)

Facets

library · maturity active

compiler interpreter programming-language developer-tools programming-languages compilers developer-tools data-science bsd cpp common-lisp llvm c++-interop lisp-implementation scientific-computing linux macos

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