Best web framework in Common-lisp?

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Prabu picture Prabu · Feb 12, 2009 · Viewed 16.3k times · Source

What is the best common-lisp web framework available?

I'm looking for something that's suitable for developing commercial web applications and capable of handling high traffic sites similar to Stack Overflow. It should also have built-in session handling and other similar features.

Answer

Leslie P. Polzer picture Leslie P. Polzer · Feb 16, 2009

My experience:

  • KPAX is unmaintained, pretty low-level and not exactly well-documented
  • UCW is quite hard to get into for beginners due to complexity and missing high-level documentation.
  • SymbolicWeb is dead
  • Use Hunchentoot directly if your needs are basic or highly specific
  • Weblocks is relatively young but already suited for professional projects while offering a basic level of user-friendliness (sparse docs but a very helpful community). It also supports several stores (e.g. CLSQL, Elephant, Prevalence).

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