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It's possible to build teams in the low hundreds. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMVZLo1Ub7M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMVZLo1Ub7M Siscog, com
by lispm 3y ago
It's possible to build teams in the low hundreds. Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMVZLo1Ub7M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMVZLo1Ub7M
Siscog, company is 37 years old, 130 employees, 1.7 Million lines of Lisp code. In the planning/scheduling domain for railway companies.
Other example ITA Software, bought by Google for $700 Million dollar. 100+ Lisp developers.
- jjav 3y ago> Siscog This is really cool! Had not heard about them. Thanks! Nice, so looks like low hundreds of developers may be possible given the right environment. That said, I don't feel it disproves my impression. If the company is 37 years old, still privately held and still has less than a hundred developers then it is clearly not a company looking to grow fast above all else. So feels like a nurturing environment for Lisp.
- lispm 3y ago> looking to grow fast above all else They may also not need to. They may have enough people working in a productive environment. If you add a Lisp feature to a large code base, it may not take a lot of time to do so, given the possibility of an incremental development style with Lisp (-> changing running applications incrementally).