On 12 Apr 2023, at 7:37, Stelian Ionescu wrote: [...]
These companies are willing and able to fund this project because NumPy is a core part of software products that yield large profits.
I keep seeing big dreams about major development in CL and my answer nowadays is "go start a company and write Lisp". Even "a small team with clear goals" is still significant payroll.
FWIW, my philosophy is captured by the name of a Python interface library: "burgled-batteries."
Rather than build something new to get this capability, I would prefer to hot-wire someone else's ride....
I definitely agree that Python and Common Lisp are similar enough in their FFI approach that a C/Fortran library meant as backend for a Python could be wrapper decently well for Common Lisp. That's probably the best approach given the lack of manpower around Common Lisp. -- Stelian Ionescu