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> But even I don't use Lisp anymore, other than the occasional Emacs hacking. What do you use? Why don't use Lisp anymore?
by personomas 11y ago
> But even I don't use Lisp anymore, other than the occasional Emacs hacking.
What do you use? Why don't use Lisp anymore?
- wtbob 11y agoPersonally, I'm still trying to use Lisp every chance I get. My window manager is stumpwm (Common Lisp) and my editor is emacs (elisp). Racket definitely has some very cool ideas, but I just don't like Lisp-1s and I do like the industrial strength of CL. The early-to-mid 2000s were an exciting time for Lisp. Practical Common Lisp (http://gigamonkeys.com/book/ http://gigamonkeys.com/book/) was coming out; Paul Graham was writing about how Lisp was a secret weapon; reddit was based on it. It seemed like the stars had finally aligned. But then…nothing happened. Ruby captured a huge amount of the hype cycle, Python captured a huge amount of the pragmatists, and…nothing happened. The Common Lisp community kept on churning out incredible code, building a better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to its door and…nothing happened. It really is dispiriting to reflect on.