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Back in 2009, when I first learned Common Lisp, I had the hope Lisp would one day become mainstream. Then in 2012 I had the same hope for Scala. ... I got olde

Back in 2009, when I first learned Common Lisp, I had the hope Lisp would one day become mainstream. Then in 2012 I had the same hope for Scala. ... I got older and I'm not anymore a dreamer Legacy code and imperative thinking is heavy.

DannyB2 9y ago
Similar experience, dream. Started playing with XLisp in late 1986. Common Lisp in 1989 to 1993. Loved it. Was greatly influenced by it. But never used it commercially. Now I dabble with Clojure on the side.
mncharity 9y ago
> I'm not anymore a dreamer Perhaps it's time to start dreaming again? Rewriting the world for VR/AR is coming up. And unlike the rewrite for mobile, this time our software development environments will be transformed as well (mobile wasn't a place for writing code). And while we're perhaps running out of time for new compiler targets and languages, there seems a lot of potential for changing infrastructure. For example, a talk went by, which I recall as someone dropping linux instances on google lambda, and setting up deterministic C compilation, for massive parallelism and caching. So push a button, and some seconds later a linux kernel has been recompiled (from empty cache). Which rather changes the constraint space on "our language or type system can't provide nice-thing X, because it would take too long to compile". Golang's story of runs fast on a couple of local cores, may shortly sound like "my IDE runs on a PDP-11!", sort of "that's cute - nice art piece". Is it ok to take two days to run some proof obligation? ... well, is it cached now, so no one ever has to do that again? Eye tracking; hand/finger tracking; escaping from 2D's crippling real-estate constraints; speech recognition; fine-grain code sharing; rich compilation frameworks ... there's a lot of fun incoming.

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Back in 2009, when I first learned Common Lisp, I had the hope Lisp would one day become mainstream. Then in 2012 I had the same hope for Scala. ... I got olde

by juanmirocks 9y ago

DannyB2 9y ago
Similar experience, dream. Started playing with XLisp in late 1986. Common Lisp in 1989 to 1993. Loved it. Was greatly influenced by it. But never used it commercially. Now I dabble with Clojure on the side.
mncharity 9y ago
> I'm not anymore a dreamer Perhaps it's time to start dreaming again? Rewriting the world for VR/AR is coming up. And unlike the rewrite for mobile, this time our software development environments will be transformed as well (mobile wasn't a place for writing code). And while we're perhaps running out of time for new compiler targets and languages, there seems a lot of potential for changing infrastructure. For example, a talk went by, which I recall as someone dropping linux instances on google lambda, and setting up deterministic C compilation, for massive parallelism and caching. So push a button, and some seconds later a linux kernel has been recompiled (from empty cache). Which rather changes the constraint space on "our language or type system can't provide nice-thing X, because it would take too long to compile". Golang's story of runs fast on a couple of local cores, may shortly sound like "my IDE runs on a PDP-11!", sort of "that's cute - nice art piece". Is it ok to take two days to run some proof obligation? ... well, is it cached now, so no one ever has to do that again? Eye tracking; hand/finger tracking; escaping from 2D's crippling real-estate constraints; speech recognition; fine-grain code sharing; rich compilation frameworks ... there's a lot of fun incoming.