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>What's the most popular Lisp in use today? At least if based in 2016 GitHub popularity: http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang.rank_.Q31
by flavio81 9y ago
>What's the most popular Lisp in use today?
At least if based in 2016 GitHub popularity:
http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang.rank_.Q316.plot-WM.png http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang....
#1 Emacs Lisp
#2 Common Lisp
#3 Scheme
#4 Racket
Unless you consider Clojure a Lisp (yes it is, and no, it isn't...), in which case #1 would be Clojure, and then the others listed above.
- peatmoss 9y agoYou can mostly combine 3 & 4 on that list. Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) has moved beyond Scheme in many ways (language features, batteries), but is still exceptionally similar.
- cube2222 9y agoWhy would clojure not be considered a lisp? (I'm curious)
- flavio81 9y agoSee this subthread and answers by LispM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207616
- throwaway7645 9y agoThere's a website article called "Clojure Sucks" that is written by a Common Lisp user who uses a symbolics lisp machine and has some interesting insight although it is very aggressive.