> this program

What program are you talking about?

The article is about Common Lisp, but perhaps you are talking about the Portacle setup mentioned in the article?

Or is this just a general snipe at CL? Is it a problem to use QuickLisp [1]? Or are you talking about deeper problems.

I think you could have something useful to say here, but I don't think that post conveys it.

[1] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

The company make a browser, Nyxt. I assume OP is talking about that. Works OK on every system I use, but who knows

If you’re referring to Nyxt, I’ve been using guix to install it, and it takes care of all the dependencies, including getting them right so that connecting to Nyxt’s swank server can be done from emacs.

it's doable, on linux systems i don't mind doing that. but on my mac i don't want to use all that disk space, particularly for a for-funsies web browser (although i really do like the browser).

and for other programs, if CL CFFI bindings don't build on your platform then nix or guix can't save you

sucks because i love lisp but CL is just not good for program distribution

In the off-chance you're not aware, their download page has links for macOS - https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/download

One each for docker and MacPorts.