Yes, it is very popular. You can also, without Quicklisp, download manually the project and let ASDF do the rest of steps.
> is it easy to find and install packaged compared to perl and python for example?
There is this CL environment, Portacle (The Portable CL Environment) which you just download and immediately gives you (no more steps needed):
- SBCL lisp implementation/compiler - Quicklisp - SLIME environment - Customized EMACS - and other nice tools.
Quicklisp is really easy to use, as easy as, say, PIP for Python.
Yes, it is very popular. You can also, without Quicklisp, download manually the project and let ASDF do the rest of steps.
> is it easy to find and install packaged compared to perl and python for example?
There is this CL environment, Portacle (The Portable CL Environment) which you just download and immediately gives you (no more steps needed):
In any case, Quicklisp is easy to install as long as you have a modern ASDF version.Quicklisp is really easy to use, as easy as, say, PIP for Python.