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Introducing Hairball
After finishing the first draft of my book on the realtime web, I wanted to take a break and build something different. So I spun my wheels for about a week before deciding on a new project.
Then it hit me, “I should write an HTTP server and simple web framework… and I should write it using… wait for it… common lisp.”
It’s Hairball!
It supports long polling connections (suitable for ‘realtime’ web apps), it’s single threaded, scalable (perhaps), and fun to play with. I plan on getting it to a point where it’s suitable for production web development… if you’re the kind of guy who wants to do that in lisp.
For now, visit the official site and grab it from github.
