Comment by KirinDave

So there are no GUI frameworks on common-lisp.net/projects? And suddenly SWIG doesn't bind to CFFI?

I appreciate your concern, but you seem somewhat ignorant to the number and quality of software libraries available to most common lisp implementations. There are excellent GTK bindings and Objective-C bindings. I'm not sure about what's available on the Windows site (although I guess I should learn, given the events of this week).

And as for the community, you have me there. The Lisp community is indeed fractured and weird. But, uh, at the end of the day I think this is a wash. People do great things in unusual languages all the time. It's not like EngineYard or I have a massive Erlang community bolstering our efforts on Fuzed and Vertebra, but we're making progress and doing what I consider to be good work.