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I like the attitude of author of this gist. Just make it work. My own practical practice is to use both a very fine System76 Linux laptop and also a super fast
by mark_l_watson 6y ago
I like the attitude of author of this gist. Just make it work.
My own practical practice is to use both a very fine System76 Linux laptop and also a super fast, if constrained, M1 MacBook Pro. Depends on what I am doing, or sometimes just what I feel like using.
To be perfectly open though, I had considered switching to just using Linux until the M1 was released. The thing that held me back was spending $3500 on a commercial Common Lisp implementation 11 months ago. Going all in on Linux would have cost me more money.
- nathell 6y agoOut of curiosity, which commercial CL implementation would that be? LispWorks? Allegro?
- selectodude 6y agoMust be LispWorks. Nothing else is anywhere near as expensive.
- lars-b2018 6y agoI use Common Lisp daily on macOS and Linux, but use SBCL and Emacs with Sly. Never tried out a commercial implementation so I cannot compare to Emacs and SBCL. Are they worth the money vs. the open source tools?
- tachyonbeam 6y agoHow could they be worth it? Vendor lock-in has a huge cost IMO. You're going to have to keep paying for these insanely expensive licenses for years, maybe decades?
- pjmlp 6y agoIf one wants to use Lisp as the Lisp Machines/Interlisp-D allowed for, only the commercial versions offer such experience.
- mark_l_watson 6y agoI use LispWorks proprietary UI library CAPI, otherwise all of my code is portable. SBCL and Emacs are great, use them often, also.
- hvis 6y agoDoes running M1 somehow save you from having to use Common Lisp, or something?