Common Lisp or Scheme for server-side?

Question

I wonder if some functional languages are used for web development and which are most useful and supported with that goal?

Answer 1

Erlang used to be a fuctional language used for server side web development, e.g.

• http://www.erlang-web.org/,
• http://github.com/mochi/mochiweb,
• http://erlyweb.org/, ...

As for Common Lisp frameworks, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/540953/best-web-framework-in-common-lisp

Answer 2

PLT Racket has a web server- it's an up-to-date, actively developed Scheme offshoot, and may be something that you want to look into. Here's some documentation:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server-internal/index.html

There are a few StackOverflow threads that can provide some more answers to this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1230046/state-of-web-development-using-functional-programming-language

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3540145/what-are-the-popular-web-ready-functional-programming-languages/3540199

Answer 3

Clojure and Scala are also used for server side web development.

Answer 4

• BKNR, a Common Lisp web application environment
• Hunchentoot, a Common Lisp web server
• Lisp-on-lines, a Common Lisp web framework
• Parenscript, a Common Lisp -> Javascript translator
• UnCommon Web, a Common Lisp web framework

It's safe to say there's a fair bit of server side stuff going on for Common Lisp!

Update: In my newsfeed this evening, compliments of Xach: A Common Lisp Web Development Primer, Part 1

Answer 5

Hunchentoot is a nice webserver for CL. CL-WHO is an HTML generation library, and there is a mod_lisp for apache I think too. You can set up something with cl-fcgi, and have a server connect to it, like a CL-WHO + cl-fcgi setup, or cl-who + hunchentoot, or cl-who + mod_lisp. I'ts your choice.