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How do you find Lisp work, out of interest? Especially for an experienced professional without commercial lisp experience?
by exdsq 5y ago
How do you find Lisp work, out of interest? Especially for an experienced professional without commercial lisp experience?
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI enjoy developing in Lisp but the number of jobs are smaller than Python/C++/Java/etc.
- vindarel 5y agoThere are some jobs. We see announces on /r/lisp, Twitter, LinkedIn… sometimes very informal ones. Some companies still pick up CL, for instance: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ (it's possible that Ravenpack is still hiring?). A good way is of course to learn CL and have something ready to show. Some announces don't require a (commercial) Lisp background though, they seek high-level engineers. Another way is to use CL for yourself, at current job or not. There's plenty of space for that. I use it for new services, instead of extending a Python aging monolith (DB access, FTP connection, XML parsing of a big dataset, a simple web frontend,…). I have even been doing live reloads for a year, installing new libraries while the app is running, and it's been a joy so far. I found one bug (with Sentry alerts of course), because I used = where a number could be nil. So I use `equal`. I am happy, I am productive, deployment is easy and the app is fast.