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Create a simple website
It would be nice to have a simple website with links to the online REPL, instructions to get the project and so on. If you feel creative today, please give it a try!
We can use the wiki to the instructions but I want still a little website. Name of the project, description, the "Fork me in github!", and a link to the online REPL would be enough.
@orodley Effectively, the online REPL is also in github pages. We would create a index.html in the existing gh-pages branch.
And about site:
I'm trying to use jscl on my homepage but compiled interpreter is oriented for work in REPL-mode.
Maybe some function more friendly than eval should be added?
@rayslava, I think our best bet would be include your code in the bootstrap, something similar to what we do with the tests. So it is pre-compiled too.
We could provide support to do it easily, like (xcompile <your application>). Indeed, I hope we can get a kind of tree-shaker with the new compiler too.
Depending on the use case, I'd additionally be in favour of using some kind of handler for script blocks with type "text/x-common-lisp" instead of "text/javascript" like in this proof of concept. The meaning of that is quite clear for users and it is actually pretty straightforward to implement.
@rayslava, It disappeared because the REPL was rewritten in Lisp.
If you want to call jscl from Javascript, we would need to export a evalString equivalent function using FFI. As jscl names are unpredictable from JS.
If you want to use jscl with Lisp but no REPL, you can include your code to be compiled with JSCL. It requires some juggling though.
I have created a couple of tickets #163 and #164 to cover these issues. Please, let us discuss it there before implementing it.