Since I started supporting multiple interprets I have learned that some features just don't work well across them or even in swank. This is a list of features that are supported.
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| ✅️ | Implemented |
| ❓ | Not implemented but might be in future |
| ❎ | Is not supported |
Unsupported and will not be supported implementations:
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CLISP - does not work, maybe with threads, but single threaded it's useless and crashes on debug attempt
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LispWorks - unfortunately free version only works as GUI so not usable.
| Features / Lisp | SBCL | ABCL | CCL | Allegro CL | CMUCL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REPL | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
| Buffer Evaluation | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
| Documentation | ✅ | ✅ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
| Macroexpand | ✅ | ✅ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
| Debugger | ✅ | ✅ | ✅️ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Debugger Actions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅️³️ | ✅⁴ | ✅ |
| Frame REPL | ✅ | ❎ | ✅️ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Breakpoints | ❎ | ❎ | ❎ | ✅ | ❎ |
| Stepping Debugger⁵ | ❎ | ❎ | ❎ | ❎ | ❎ |
| References | ✅ | ❎ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❎ |
| Inspector | ✅¹ | ✅² | ✅️¹ | ✅️¹ | ✅️¹ |
| Autocomplete | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Find References | ✅ | ❎ | ✅️ | ❎ | ❎ |
| Function Arguments | ✅ | ✅ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
| Automatic Download - Windows | ✅ | ❎ | ❓ | ❓ | ❓ |
¹Only read-only inspector available
²Only read-only inspector available, also no history support
³️Due to how CCL optimizes restarts into tag jumps and is not storing arglist, there is no automatic restart action argument detection. Thus, you need to supply your own and every action has "invoke with arguments" or "invoke without arguments" option, so you have to decide. FML for ansi common lisp not having ansi way to get restart arguments because fuck you that's why.
⁴Allegro CL restarts have correct arglists so actions work but for some reason all restarts from SWANK have arguments, event abort ones...
⁵No implementation in Slime supports this, maybe I will work in custom solutions.