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Simon Safar
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Simon Safar's personal blog at simonsafar.com covers programming, systems and culture. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Simon Safar's 2020 post on SBCL, the Common Lisp implementation. It is cited as a starting point for learning the internals of SBCL, alongside other references and the SBCL source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-22
What Hacker News says?
For starters, SBCL's non-CL parts are separated into src/runtime directory, which makes it much easier to figure out what is just "support structure" and what is actual language. For learning more specifically on SBCL, you can look at following https://pvk.ca/Blog/2013/04/13/starting-to-hack-on-sbcl/ https://simonsafar.com/2020/sbcl/ And of course SBCL code and comments. There are also some papers related to CMUCL (…
Comment linking /2020/sbcl/
on “Roll A Lisp In C – Reading (2020)”Submitted An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020) as a story · 132 points
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