Libraries: dexador, some links, Awesome CL, State of CL 2015

[vindarel]

In this PR I suggest:

• to replace drakma by dexador: http://quickdocs.org/dexador/ (better and sanier API, unicode handling, faster)
• I added some href links but not all
• I reference the Awesome-cl list and the State of CL ecosystem article, both very valuable and doing the same job has this list.

[pnathan]

Does dexador work on ABCL, CLISP, SBCL, ECL (or a lisp in that family), and CCL? I try to ensure the libraries up on a-c-l are pretty cross-implementation?

[vindarel]

Good point. I had to ask here: https://github.com/fukamachi/dexador/issues/27

[pnathan]

Also note that drakma is stupid easy to use: http-request and, voila, a result. That is one reason why I dramatically like it. tbh I don't know how easy dexador is.

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Good point. I had to ask here: fukamachi/dexador#27 https://github.com/fukamachi/dexador/issues/27

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[vindarel]

Dexador is also this easy, besides this presentation is pretty convincing: http://www.slideshare.net/fukamachi/dexador-rises (tbh I barely tried Drakma, but I was beaten by many CL libraries with weird/old/unsufficient design…).

[vindarel]

Hi, Fukamachi answered:

I tested it with SBCL, ABCL, ECL and CCL. Since Dexador uses usocket as its backend, I expect it's portable enough like Drakma.

Is that enough or I keep a reference to Drakma ? ("Dexador… that aims at replacing Drakma)