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>(Common) Lisp usually gets more use than exposure What? It gets exposure on the Internet all the time, while seemingly nearly no one uses it in production. E
by Throw_Away_4825 7y ago
>(Common) Lisp usually gets more use than exposure
What? It gets exposure on the Internet all the time, while seemingly nearly no one uses it in production.
Edit: Just look at the end of [1]. They have exactly three examples.
Edit 2: They have more example in [2], but it is still pretty little.
[1] https://lisp-lang.org/ https://lisp-lang.org/
[2] https://lisp-lang.org/success/ https://lisp-lang.org/success/
- Smithalicious 7y agoThis is getting downvoted and I don't see why. CL is easily in the top 10 programming languages I see mentioned on HN and it also comes up regularly outside of HN, yet the amount of people actually using it in production seems miniscule.
- Throw_Away_7435 7y agoBecause HN is full of Lisp zealots. (Which may be partially because Paul Graham is also a Lisp zealot.) And there is of course also a selection of people who click on certain threads. Many other platforms are similar in that regard, but from HN I would normally except better. (I am the same person as grand-parent with a different account, btw.)
- tomhoward 7y agoHN being one of the few places online where Lisp enthusiasts can find new Lisp-related content and discuss it with other enthusiasts is very different from HN being "full of Lisp zealots" They're still very much in the minority here.