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> Janet is a clean, modern LISP. This does seem cleaner. I have some questions though: - What about the interactive environment like the one in Common Lisp?
by ogogmad 5y ago
> Janet is a clean, modern LISP.
This does seem cleaner. I have some questions though:
- What about the interactive environment like the one in Common Lisp? It's not enough to only have a "REPL", I think.
- There are so many Lisp dialects. Is this one going to remain obscure?
- What's the library situation?
- db65edfc7996 5y ago>What about the interactive environment like the one in Common Lisp? Never used a "real" Lisp REPL, but Conjure[0] seems like it ticks a lot of boxes. >Is this one going to remain obscure? There are only a ~dozen mainstream languages. Once you get outside of the popular zeitgeist, you have to appreciate exactly what you are getting. It takes a lot of dedication to become fluent in a language/ecosystem, so it is no surprise that people are reluctant to switch to a novel platform. Clojure is far more likely to ever become mainstream (owing to the huge JVM ecosystem), but even that seems to have only limited industry penetration. [0] https://github.com/Olical/conjure https://github.com/Olical/conjure