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> Common Lisp is languishing can you elaborate more on that?

• nextos 8y ago
  I don't think CL is attracting a lot of new developers or there's a lot of new libraries getting developed. But I would be glad to be proven wrong. Perhaps Racket will eventually become a CL replacement, now it's adopting a lot of Chez low-level stuff and it's multiparadigm efforts keep growing.
  • joshlemer 8y ago
    Do you have any ideas why Racket has not had the commercial success of Clojure for example?
    • didibus 8y ago
      My guess would be the JVM. Racket is an academic language, designed for academia. At least it markets itself as such. Made to explore the design space of programming languages. Clojure was designed and marketed for the enterprise. Builds on the JVM, full Java interop, emphasis on pragmatism.