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Insert meme of Nolan Grayson, representing Lisp/Scheme/Racket programmers, pointing at fighter jets labeled "transpilers" and saying: "Look at what they need to
by bitwize 3y ago
Insert meme of Nolan Grayson, representing Lisp/Scheme/Racket programmers, pointing at fighter jets labeled "transpilers" and saying: "Look at what they need to mimic just a fraction of our power!"
- CyberDildonics 3y agoI think the roles would be reversed when trying to make fast, small interactive software that people want to use. "Powerful" is interesting but clear, straightforward and fast is better. No web browser, database, video codec, or high end video game is written in scheme. At best it's inefficient ancillary software that someone wrote in scheme because they wanted to, not because that's what a user wanted.