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> Would my next startup benefit if I used it? Who do you want to hire? For all of MacOS' brilliant strategy, the idea of an Xserve Sysadmin exists solely in f
by talldayo 2y ago
> Would my next startup benefit if I used it?
Who do you want to hire?
For all of MacOS' brilliant strategy, the idea of an Xserve Sysadmin exists solely in fiction these days. Linux is comparatively a blowout success, and a lot of people know it as a result. According to StackOverflow's survey[0], Lisp's popularity among professional developers is lower than the interest in ObjectiveC. It's not the Linux of languages, because Linux is a fundamentally popular.
I don't work with Lisp because the code all blends into each other after a while, and I'm a full-blown Scheme apologist. But look - real-world problems demand real-world solutions, ones that you can reliably scale to 20 or 200 developers. Lisp is a pet language, and you have to live in a world that treats projects like cattle. The real question is mostly how far your personal dedication will go towards making it work.
[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular-technologies-language-prof https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...
- krschacht 2y agoI should have said: desktop linux / Gnome. That would have been the clearer analogy. But I don’t think it’s as simple as “who do you want to hire.” It’s not that hard to learn a new programming language. I have a hard time believing that if a small founding team picked lisp and got to product-fit, there wouldn’t be a fundamental barrier to them scaling the team.