Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp
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2025-04-23
Developing a Boids program from scratch without restarting it.
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Some Lisps, like Common Lisp, have a powerful feature that tends to go underappreciated amidst all the talk about macros: the ability to recompile your program while it's running, without restarting it. For the purposes of this post, and because it sounds cool, let's call this ability livecoding1.
Entering this strange land where the programs never stop...
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