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racket is also one of the very few free lisps with a visual debugger and stepper, which is crazy when you realize how widely available that is in modern languag

• pjmlp 3y ago
  Most likely because they got students to implement that for their thesis work, and free Common Lisp are seldom used for thesis stuff. Like in many free tooling most people rather do with what they have instead of improving them, hence why all great developer experiences are either commercial or corporate sponsored.
  • mbork_pl 3y ago
    > all great developer experiences are either commercial or corporate sponsored GNU Emacs disagrees.
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      VSCode adoption in detriment of Emacs disagrees.
      • mbork_pl 3y ago
        GP talked about "great developer experiences", not adoption. There are lots of reasons inferior tools, standards etc. may be more widely adopted.
        • pjmlp 3y ago
          Great development experiences drive adoption. I know Eight Megabytes of Continuous Memory Swap since those 8MB actually mattered.
          • dTal 3y ago
            "EMoCMS"? It's "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping".
            • pjmlp 3y ago
              Yeah, it's been a while.