Current recommended libraries

Cliki contributors (that's you!) believe that the libraries on this page are considered "good enough for government use", and serve as a starting point when looking for a library covering a given field.

Regular expressions:
- cl-ppcre - highly useful and fast regular expressions engine.

Sockets:
- usocket is under active development; includes trivial-sockets compatibility
- IOLib includes support for non-blocking IO (select, epoll, kqueue)

Threads:
- Bordeaux-Threads

Files and directories:
- CL-FAD

Foreign language interface:
- CFFI. Supports almost all lisp implementation?s on all platforms.
- SWIG can generate CFFI bindings from C/C++ header files

Graphical User Interface:
- cl-gtk2
- McCLIM

defsystem (System definition, aka Makefiles):
- asdf

Web development:
- Hunchentoot web server
- CL-WHO HTML generator
- Parenscript JavaScript compiler

SQL database connectivity:
- CLSQL
- postmodern: designed for PostgreSQL

Internationalization (i18) and localization (l10n):
- Character encoding/decoding: flexi-streams - focus on features
- Character encoding/decoding: babel - focus on speed
- Character categories, etc: cl-unicode
- Localization (number formats, etc): cl-l10n

XML:
- CXML namespace, validating, SAX, StAX, W3C DOM, XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0
- S-XML simple XML parser
- XMLS simple XML parser

HTTP client libraries:
- Drakma

Memory management:
- trivial-garbage includes support for finalization and weak hash tables

Mathematics:
- GSLL is an interface to the GNU Scientific Library
- Maxima is a computer algebra system

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