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Oy please. Some Lispers are stuck in the past with their ivory tower ideals, saddened that nobody wants their favorite flavor of Lisp anymore. Why can't you emb
by iLemming 7y ago
Oy please. Some Lispers are stuck in the past with their ivory tower ideals, saddened that nobody wants their favorite flavor of Lisp anymore. Why can't you embrace the fact that Lisp just like any other idea does have right to evolve and change?
> Did Gauche stop existing?
Out of all the five people who ever heard about it, three probably stopped using it and for the rest, it may just be like it never existed - they've never heard about it.
Clojure on the other hand somehow managed to become third most popular JVM language and very popular alt-js language. Out of all PLs that can be considered somewhat esoteric, Clojure today is the most vibrant - it has more books, podcasts and conferences. More than Elixir, OCaml, Haskell, Elm, Purescript and even Rust.
Very few people used Guile, even before Clojure got some spotlight. So instead of whining why can't you be happy for the fact that people still want to use Lisp in 2020 at all?
- arnautdaniel 7y agoSo your argument is that I'm somehow a lisp fanatic and I should be happy that at least one lisp made it into the current fad?
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- cutler 7y agoExactly.