I second this: making it easy for users to use your language implementation is very valuable. I routinely test my Lisp on every implementation I can reliably get my hands on, and I’ve never been able to build a good binary for clasp.

Thirded. I would also add Clasp to my projects' list of implementations to run unit tests on[1] if I could easily install it on Ubuntu with a .deb.

[1]: e.g. adding a test-clasp clause to https://github.com/sjl/cl-digraph/blob/master/Makefile#L14-L...

> if I could easily install it on Ubuntu with a .deb.

Or even via Roswell - if that is even remotely possible.

I don't use/like Roswell, so I'd really prefer a .deb if at all possible.

Clasp is supplied via Roswell but fails to compile on Arm64.

Thank you. So debs for debian? I have great collaborators working with me now that could do this. We have one for Arch I believe. I just haven't prioritized this yet.

Debian and its derivatives, yes; I do most of my lisp from raspbian these days, but it's Debian compatible.

Cool, I'm curious, what do you do with lisp if you can share it?

Is that a general question, or a precise one?

In case it's the former, I have a ton of personal projects and small libraries in it, plus wrote a book on it that will get published by Apress[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23843525

It was a precise one, but thanks! :D

Tools for work, small web services that I share with friends, basically all my personal programming.

If you take the packaging route, cross-distribution packages like guix and nix would probably be best.