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Is Lisp being used today for anything particularly significant, like C and JavaScript are, or is it merely a niche academic language, like Haskell and Rust?

• tmtvl 3y ago
  If you consider Rust (is in the Windows and Linux kernels, powers Discord,...) a niche academic language, then I guess Common Lisp (used for the Grammarly backend, powers ITA software) is a niche academic language as well.
• the_duke 3y ago
  If you consider Rust an academic language, you are quite a few years out of date. The language is in production at Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (including making it into the Windows kernel), and is slowly being included in Linux as well.
  • esjeon 3y ago
    Rust has been a practical language since the beginning. Not every experimental stuffs are academic, especially when concepts are not rigorously formulated. Rust has been a rolling language ever since it was created, so is hardly formal.
• vindarel 3y ago
  yes https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies http://lisp-lang.org/success/ http://lisp-lang.org/success/ industrial theorem prover, design of Intel chips, quantum compilers... and little me, being more productive and having more fun than with python to deploy boring tools (read a DB, format the data, send to FTP servers, show a web interface...).
• BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
  Not really. It has some great ideas but its library ecosystem is weak and it has a fair amount of footguns and jank. It’s fun to use but it doesn’t really make sense to use it for most serious software projects, particularly those that want collaborators.