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For me it makes lots of sense, it is not "nonsense". Java is a gigantic dependency. Any project that depends on it adds all this dependency with it. In many ca
by pritovido 7y ago
For me it makes lots of sense, it is not "nonsense".
Java is a gigantic dependency. Any project that depends on it adds all this dependency with it. In many cases this dependency could be bad or toxic for the project.
It depends of what you do for a living. Personally I will never let anyone include java as a dependency in my company's projects, because for what we do, java is slow and linked to Oracle.
Lisp is a different story. You can create c ,Python, Lua,c++ or whatever code from Lisp easily.
- exdsq 7y agoDo you use Lisp at your workplace? I see it defended a lot but few people I meet actually use it (I've met one full-time Lisp developer in my life!)
- allover 7y agoYou will see it defended a lot on Hacker News, due to the disproportionate level of PL enthusiasts, and the Paul Graham thing. But yes, you're right that in reality, lisps have incredibly limited popularity. (You've met one more full-time Lisper than me and I've been in the industry for 10 years).
- flavio81 7y ago>Do you use Lisp at your workplace? I do.
- exdsq 7y agoWhat for? I mean, I have relative freedom at work and could probably use Lisp on my own tools for my own job, but I’ve never really considered it (I use Haskell and Python instead).
- simongray 7y agoIn my current and in my last 2 jobs I've been using a Lisp (Clojure). Since learning Clojure and functional programming in general, I made a conscious choice to seek it out for the last two positions (a small startup and a huge government project) and in this current one (university research) I'm starting two projects from scratch and get to decide myself which language to use, so of course I'm gonna choose the one I enjoy the most and will be more productive in. It's hard to go back to imperative/oop.