jcguu95 / cl-server

DEPRECATED

This project is deprecated. Here are some of my expectation and how they did not work out.

1. I aimed to write a tiny client that talks to a running lisp repl. The functionality should be a essential subset of lserver. The code should be concise and straightforward.

2. The client should start fast, but I forgot this and chose to use shell. Of course, it is not so fast, but I do not know C well enough either. I can come back months later when my C skill is better.

3. Probably the hardest part is the rpc protocol. I was not awared well enough that how the protocol should be designed. Lisp is rich but shell only speaks texts. How should the result from the server be formatted? Remember that even if the client is written in C, the server is meant to output to a shell pipe.

   $ ls -al | lisp-server "(magic-transformer *input*)" | ..
   

IDEAS

1. Look at how daveray/clawk deals with outputs. Also see alecthomas/pawk.

2. Look at the advantage of nushell.