PicoLisp Download

If you would like to get some hands-on experience with PicoLisp, you can download the latest version here. It should compile and run on many 64-bit and 32-bit POSIX systems (see the README file).

If you are using a Linux of the Debian family (like Ubuntu or Mint), you can also simply install it globally with

$ sudo apt-get install picolisp

PicoLisp is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under the conditions of the MIT/X11 License (see COPYING). Commercial support -- mentoring, consulting, training, development -- is available upon request.

Please take a look at the Documentation page on picolisp.com.

For a local installation, download

or - even better - the rolling release at picoLisp.tgz which is more up to date. Then follow the instructions in the INSTALL file.

A native 64-bit version is also contained in the release. Please refer to the documentation in doc64/README, doc64/asm and doc64/structures.

Also, the release contains a pure Java version of PicoLisp, called "Ersatz PicoLisp". Please check ersatz/README. You can also download it separately, as a minimal setup which runs on any system with a 1.6 Java runtime environment: ersatz.tgz.

The PicoLisp Home Page at home.picolisp.com holds further articles, examples and documentation. The site is powered by PicoLisp, its sources are available at wiki.tgz.

Any feedback is welcome! Many concepts in the PicoLisp system are not well documented yet, and might not be obvious to a traditional Lisp programmer. So please don't hesitate to ask, and join our discussion in the PicoLisp Mailing List or at the IRC #picolisp channel on FreeNode.net! See also the Mail Archive and IRC-Logger. From time to time, I try to post some news, hints and insights on Twitter.





For an archive of previous releases see below.

For something even smaller, download miniPicoLisp.tgz. It is a minimal version, without support for databases, UTF-8, bignums, IPC, networking and other system-dependent functions. A kind of "pure" PicoLisp (not "pure Lisp"!). It supports the full PicoLisp language, but runs faster, and uses even less memory space. It should also not be restricted to Unix. In addition, it compiles and runs also on 64-bit systems.

Jon Kleiser wrote an OpenGL library (native in the 64-bit version).

Some philosophical and practical aspects are discussed in "A Radical Approach to Application Development (PDF)", and a description of PicoLisp DB and GUI Development principles is in "A Unifying Language for Database And User Interface Development".

Please enjoy :-)

If you like, you can make a donation for the development and maintenance of PicoLisp.

Release Archive