Using Common Lisp from inside the Browser
Tagged as lisp, webassembly
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Web Embeddable Common Lisp is a project that brings Common Lisp and the Web Browser environments together. In this post I'll outline the current progress of the project and provide some technical details, including current caveats and future plans.
It is important to note that this is not a release and none of the described APIs and functionalities is considered to be stable. Things are still changing and I'm not accepting bug reports for the time being.
The source code of the project is available: https://fossil.turtleware.eu/wecl/.
Scripting a website with Common Lisp
The easiest way to use Common Lisp on a website is to include WECL and insert script tags with a type "text/common-lisp". When the attribute src is present, then first the runtime loads the script from that url, and then it executes the node body. For example create and run this HTML document from localhost:
We may use Common Lisp that can call to JavaScript, and register callbacks to be called on specified events. The source code of the script can be found here:
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