I always like seeing Common Lisp links, but personally I was a bit put off by the very strong anti-commercial comments about LispWorks and Franz.
I had a business idea requiring Common Lisp a few years ago and I purchased a LispWorks Professional license. Small standalone executables with a tree shaker [1] and I has received very good support without paying for the high priority support service. I also paid the maintenance fee last year for continued updates. Coincidentally, I am an advisor and chief architect for a small AI company and they use LispWorks also.
Many years ago, I worked as a consultant on a medical AI project and my customer paid a fair amount of money to Franz for software licensing and tech support that included helping with development. Incredibly useful!
I also love open source Common Lisp and Scheme implementations.
Anyway, I would respectfully suggest to the author to maybe tone down the rhetoric a bit since different individual developers and companies have different requirements.
[1] you can also make small standalone apps with SBCL by building from source and setting a flag to allow compressed heap files.
I had a business idea requiring Common Lisp a few years ago and I purchased a LispWorks Professional license. Small standalone executables with a tree shaker [1] and I has received very good support without paying for the high priority support service. I also paid the maintenance fee last year for continued updates. Coincidentally, I am an advisor and chief architect for a small AI company and they use LispWorks also.
Many years ago, I worked as a consultant on a medical AI project and my customer paid a fair amount of money to Franz for software licensing and tech support that included helping with development. Incredibly useful!
I also love open source Common Lisp and Scheme implementations.
Anyway, I would respectfully suggest to the author to maybe tone down the rhetoric a bit since different individual developers and companies have different requirements.
[1] you can also make small standalone apps with SBCL by building from source and setting a flag to allow compressed heap files.