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Welcome to Weblocks

Weblocks is an advanced web framework written in Common Lisp.

It is designed to make Agile web application development as effective and simple as possible.

Is it usable? Can I see some demos?

Weblocks is well-tested and has proven its worth in daily usage. It is used by a community of developers all over the world.

Public applications running Weblocks include LAMSIGHT2 and Thanandar.

Why yet another web framework?

This is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill web framework in PHP, Python or Ruby.

Weblocks uses powerful Lisp features like multiple dispatch, the metaobject protocol, lexical closures, keyword arguments, and macros to build abstractions that make web development easy, intuitive, and free of boilerplate. In addition, control flow is easily expressed using continuations.

Things that are hard or mundane in other frameworks become easy and fun in Weblocks.

In Common Lisp?

Common Lisp is a powerful standardized language with high-performance implementations.

Weblocks makes use of several advanced features that cannot be found in most other programming languages.

Moreover, Common Lisp itself is ideally suited to modern pragmatic and Agile programming.