This is a little assortment of places where I’ve found Lisp is in the world:
Note: Some of these might be stretches, but I want to show the general, influence that my favourite language has had on the world
- Autodesk uses AutoLisp as a scripting language for their products
- Their forums sometimes help me solve CL stuff as well
- SCI engine used for Sierra adventure games uses an object oriented Lisp
- Kandria a new indie game developed in CL
- Spycursion is a CL game in development by (defun games ())
- GCC creates many different trees during compilation, some of the later ones are outputted in Lisp list syntax
- Guix is a package manager written in Scheme, capable of running a distro (it leans on the Nix daemon to run the builds, which is sadly C++)
- Shepherd is an Init system written in Guile Scheme
- GNU utilities either do now or plan to ship with extensibility through Guile Scheme (writing inline Lisp in makefiles for example)
This article[a] on Grammarly states that
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- Grammarly uses Common Lisp in production
- Hipmunk uses Lisp
- The London underground somehow uses Lisp
Another article[a] confirms the above and adds more
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- Boeing 747 and 777 for both internal software and
- Boeing and Airbus apparently use Piano
- which is a CL program for aircraft design
- Circle CI
- Hacker News is written in Arc
- Franz Inc. uses CL heavily for data analysis
- The original Zork was written in a very simple Lisp
- Reddit 1.0 was written in Common Lisp[a]
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- If you can setup the database should be perfectly runnable today
- pgloader got a rewrite in Common Lisp[a] around 2014 for performance reasons
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- Quil[a] is a language (and associated Quantum Virtual Machine) written in Common Lisp
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- Mezzano[a] is a working operating system written in pure CL
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- Even boots on my hardware and runs absolutely smooth