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[tech] A Gemini client library for Common Lisp.

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net

Thu Feb 18 15:13:18 GMT 2021

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John Cowan writes:

I think it is worthwhile to point out that this library has only 100 lines of

code + 19 lines of packaging information (which are also in fact code), and

only six dependencies: a general utility library (Alexandria), an

encoding-decoding library (Babel), a socket library that bridges the

differences between different Common Lisp implementations (Usocket), a library

for encoded streams (Flexi-stream), an SSL library (CL+SSL), and a URI library

(QUri), all of them bog-standard.

Thank you for noticing!

Being a relative CL-newbie coming mostly from the Python world, I'm not asdependency-averse as a lot of more experienced CL developers. But I did likethat not much was necessary.

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