signalHacker News Show HN2026-10-05
Show HN: A Hotspot-Inspired Common Lisp for Linux/Windows/Android
Evergreen Common Lisp implements tiered JIT compilation with on-stack replacement, plus features like fibers, JVM integration, static and dynamic linked binaries, tree-shaking, and speculative optimization with deoptimization. It can run native Android apps on a phone, connectable via Sly, and builds Android apps directly from ASDF without normal Android tooling except adb. The project is at v0.0.1, with over 2,000 commits made by AI in two months.
- for who
- Common Lisp developers interested in JIT compilation or running Lisp on Android devices
- what changes
- Developers can now build and run native Android apps in Common Lisp and connect to them for debugging without the standard Android toolchain
- to do
- Try Evergreen Common Lisp v0.0.1 to build an Android app from ASDF and connect with Sly using adb
key points
- Tiered JIT with on-stack replacement, fibers, JVM integration, tree-shaking
- Android apps build directly from ASDF, requiring only adb for device access
- v0.0.1 milestone includes over 2,000 AI-generated commits
#common lisp#jit compilation#android#open source project
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