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This is a little assortment of places where I’ve found Lisp is in the world:
Note: Some of these might be stretches, but I want to show the general, influence that my favourite language has had on the world
Autodesk uses AutoLisp as a scripting language for their products
Their forums sometimes help me solve CL stuff as well
SCI engine used for Sierra adventure games uses an object oriented Lisp
Kandria a new indie game developed in CL
Spycursion is a CL game in development by (defun games ())
GCC creates many different trees during compilation, some of the later ones are outputted in Lisp list syntax
Guix is a package manager written in Scheme, capable of running a distro (it leans on the Nix daemon to run the builds, which is sadly C++)
Shepherd is an Init system written in Guile Scheme
GNU utilities either do now or plan to ship with extensibility through Guile Scheme (writing inline Lisp in makefiles for example)
This article[a] on Grammarly states that
Grammarly uses Common Lisp in production
Hipmunk uses Lisp
The London underground somehow uses Lisp
Another article[a] confirms the above and adds more
Boeing 747 and 777 for both internal software and
Boeing and Airbus apparently use Piano
which is a CL program for aircraft design
Circle CI
Hacker News is written in Arc
Franz Inc. uses CL heavily for data analysis
The original Zork was written in a very simple Lisp
Reddit 1.0 was written in Common Lisp[a]
If you can setup the database should be perfectly runnable today
pgloader got a rewrite in Common Lisp[a] around 2014 for performance reasons
Quil[a] is a language (and associated Quantum Virtual Machine) written in Common Lisp
Mezzano[a] is a working operating system written in pure CL
Even boots on my hardware and runs absolutely smooth
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