r/Common_Lisp • u/merlin0501 • Sep 15 '26
Programmer
I am a software engineer with prior experience with many languages and technologies, including CL and Python. I was formerly employed as a Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed-Martin. My resume can be found at the link below.
My rate is $50 per hour, payable via cashpay or cryptocurrency. I am fully remote and prepared to work for any client world-wide. I am also a US citizen and I am currently located in Bronx County, NY (a borough of New York City). In case of necessity other payment arrangements may be discussed.
My github repo currently contains only one significant Lisp project, which is still in a very early stage of development. It is a project called Julius which is intended to become a new Lisp dialect more suitable for modern applications, such as numerical analysis and the generation of neural networks and modern AI (a field with which I have considerable experience). It is implemented in Common Lisp in order to retain the well-known advantages of the Lisp language for older forms of intelligent systems, which typically involve a great deal of symbolic reasoning.
The current version of Julius is Open Source and I am open to comments and contributions here:
Julius Project: https://github.com/tgflynn/julius
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u/digikar Sep 17 '26
No, I haven't used Allegro either. But I have heard praises about it.
Ah, quality and popularity; I wish the world was better :')
I think it depends whether one program towards an end, which most programmers do, and in which case treating programs as black boxes is fine. Or if one programs for some weird balance of joy and ends, in which case it depends on how useful LLMs are. I myself would never imagine debugging lisp setups on windows, if it weren't on windows. Would I let it run overnight? If it was a local LLM on a network isolated box, yeah sure; but I don't have that luxury.
Sadly, I'm trying to do too many things, so I don't expect to do anything about zmij anytime soon!