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Does anyone have a link to the source code? I was thinking about writing some code in asyncio to compare but I couldn't find the code.

Thanks for letting me know. It is good to be aware of alternatives.

A very important project because it is one of the two browsers on Android that support extensions (the other one is Firefox Mobile). I didn't know it was closed source.

Fair enough. My assumption was that you would consider a source to bytecode compiler an interpreter (to be fair most people do). The next time I say something about Common Lisp I will list all the implementations instead of saying something as simplistic as "compiler" or "interpreter".

The word "compiler" is so overloaded that every time someone mentions one it turns into an argument. This is the whole transpiler vs compiler vs interpreter vs JIT argument. The trouble is that sometimes some programmers implement all of them (myself included).

> CLISP has its own virtual machine, which is the target of its compiler

Then CPython is also a compiler? and Lua?

Of course many implementations do compile to machine code but there are also a few that don't (clisp, ecl, abcl). It is really complicated to talk about languages that have multiple implementations. That is why I went with "interpreter". That was pretty lazy of me :).

But you didn't say anything about the original question. Have you seen Common Lisp code deployed as an executable or as source code?

Isn't Common Lisp's save-lisp-and-die roughly analogous Pyinstaller? I mean they both work but nobody seems to be using them. In my experience Common Lisp code is most commonly deployed with an interpreter.

What about the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6? It seems to be comparable to the iPad Pro in terms of performance and screen. I tried out an Android tablet a few months ago and it seemed pretty fine.

If your want to do portable programming I would recommend a light 2 in 1 laptop. You can dual boot Windows and Linux on it (Windows for media consumption and Linux for programming). But it is bigger then a tablet.

Of course if you use a server you can use anything you want to do programming. But personally the latency is a dealbreaker for me.