Quickdocs Documentation

Quickdocs keeps getting better and better. Now they have nicely formatted documentation for the Quicklisp packages. These are nice enough and easy enough to access that I use them for my primary package documentation. They’re a lot easier to bring up than navigating through your local Quicklisp tree to get to the documentation that’s installed with the package. You can’t just bookmark those because the name of the source subdirectory changes when a package is upgraded.

The combination of Quicklisp and Quickdocs has, I think, been a real game changer for Lisp libraries. Previously they were hard to find, tricky to install, and were sometimes not documented. All that’s changed now and we have an ecosystem of well-documented libraries that work across a large range of Lisp implementations. It’s a good time to be a Lisp developer. Of course, it’s always been a good time; just not always popular.

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