In a typically niche fashion, the "Guided Tour" has an abstract and no pictures. What screenshots exist are divorced from code samples.
So there is a conundrum here for the passing coder - this toolkit comes from the lisp tradition so it is probably completely serious when it says it is a powerful toolkit for writing GUIs. But it appears to require a serious investment of time to figure out why that is or how it might compare to a webpage of Javascript.
Does this toolkit have killer features that are being poorly articulated, or are the advantages from lots of smaller good ideas?
The toolkit is based on presentations which provide a direct representation of underlying objects. That (I think) is the most distinctive feature of CLIM-like systems (compared to other toolkits). That said, maybe we should remove the link to Guided Tour from the about page, because the manual is much more comprehensive. The specification is very well written, but it is rather hard to grok as a learning material.
So there is a conundrum here for the passing coder - this toolkit comes from the lisp tradition so it is probably completely serious when it says it is a powerful toolkit for writing GUIs. But it appears to require a serious investment of time to figure out why that is or how it might compare to a webpage of Javascript.
Does this toolkit have killer features that are being poorly articulated, or are the advantages from lots of smaller good ideas?