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$500 for hobbyist edition. Ouch!
by mmargerum 7y ago
$500 for hobbyist edition. Ouch!
- _ph_ 7y agoI think they are missing an opportunity there. The commercial prices are in line with other professional software offerings. But as a hobbyist I never could quite convice myself to buy a license. As nice as their environment is, there is SBCL. Consequently, at work I would use SBCL too and not argue for a Lispworks license. Of course, while lacking the IDE, SBCL is likely the better Lisp compiler.
- TurboHaskal 7y agoWell there's more to it than just the compiler, but if you develop for the server and either SBCL or CCL are behaving like champs for your needs, there aren't many reasons to change. The IDE is really nice but it isn't a game changer. LispWorks shines when you have to ship products that customers will run themselves. As for the pricing of the Hobbyist edition, I think they are hurting their business this way in the long term. Times have changed and thanks to Quicklisp the ecosystem is better and more important than ever, but a lot of libraries go untested for LW because of such paywall. Not to mention the Personal Edition is barely usable and leaves a bad impression. But then again, these are just my two cents. I am not going to tell one of the very few commercial vendors alive today how to run their business.