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My guess is Common Lisp has the most usage in industry, its just quiet compared to the latest dog food sharing app built in Clojure. Racket seems the most enthu

My guess is Common Lisp has the most usage in industry, its just quiet compared to the latest dog food sharing app built in Clojure. Racket seems the most enthusiastic and fun community, and has some great learning tools. And Emacs Lisp secretly runs all of it.

User23 3y ago
I vaguely recall a story about some enterprise critical app that some madman hacked out in elisp because time was tight.
- LispSporks22 3y ago
  Steve Yegge’s customer support app for Amazon possibly
- jes 3y ago
  Might it be this article? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26531660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26531660
- viksit 3y ago
  This one about german ATC running in elisp https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26202517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26202517
  - bmitc 3y ago
    More than disturbing that ATC software was written quickly because of tight constraints.
  - User23 3y ago
    Yes that's the one. Thanks!