Most of us have heard how amazing the Lisp machines of the 80s were, an operating system dedicated entirely to human-computer interaction and abstraction.
What I've noticed that myself and other lisp hackers end up doing is living out of an CL+Emacs ecosystem, bringing environment variables into the runtime from async shell calls, SBCL native handles etc, into S-expressions or M-x commands which turns these hooks and system objects into objects in our lisp environments.
I do this with my browsers as well, bringing DOM objects in from javascript compiled to from ParenScript Lisp (Common Lisp -> Javascript)
https://github.com/olewhalehunter/kommissarThis is all fine and well until you want to run your system on another machine or your computer crashes and you find yourself setting up your desktop from scratch.
I propose we collaborate on abstracting Linux system hooks, various windowing environment utilities, and any command line programs we use into the SBCL runtime, creating a portable Lisp virtual machine with the possibility of bootstrapping an even more powerful version of Emacs from the result.
Macros can then be created at a system level, we can even bind statistical data on command usage and create command topologies to speed up personal automation or even collaborate on distributed machine learning/AI systems.
