Common Lisp Web App Tutorial: A Guestbook Example
2025-05-04

This tutorial walks through building a simple guestbook web application using Common Lisp, highlighting the language's challenges, particularly its lack of comprehensive documentation. The author covers project setup, database connection, template rendering, route definition, and compares code size against a Python Flask equivalent. The tutorial concludes by weighing the pros and cons of using Common Lisp for web development, suggesting it's better suited for lower-level tasks and high-performance computing, with limited advantages in typical web backend development.
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