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The first version of Reddit was written in Common Lisp, but less than a year later, they reluctantly migrated to Python because Python had a bigger library ecos
by cpeterso 4y ago
The first version of Reddit was written in Common Lisp, but less than a year later, they reluctantly migrated to Python because Python had a bigger library ecosystem:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160803061607/http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160803061607/http://www.reddit...
- kazinator 4y agoI remember a more nuanced version: - They tried using some commercial Lisp on a platform where it was poorly supported, and were struggling with certain stability issues (I don't remember the details). - A team member came on board who, what do you know, had also authored the Python-based web framework that they were using in the rewrite. Reddit may have been used as the "guinea pig" for improving this web framework.
- kazinator 4y agoSorry, I misremembered all that. It's hard to find the original information. One of the devs revealed that he was working OpenMCL on a Mac ... but then Reddit was actually running with CMUCL on FreeBSD. (Yes, really!) He couldn't basically even run all of Reddit in the dev environment. (Regarding "commerical Lisp"; that's what some Lisp people were saying should have been given consideration.)