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Racket (and precursor Scheme for academic reasons) is the Lisp I've interacted the most with besides Clojure, so I never really considered the perspective of a
by yzzxy 12y ago
Racket (and precursor Scheme for academic reasons) is the Lisp I've interacted the most with besides Clojure, so I never really considered the perspective of a stdlib being so valuable. Clojure->Java and ClojureScript->Js have always seemed super awkward to me, and having a similar naming style could be a great feature.
Still, I'm reminded of Greenspun's tenth rule when reading about this project. Hopefully it will become a popular and well-supported option in its own right.
- jarcane 12y agoI find seeing a multipoint dotted Java name in front of an s-expression deeply unsettling somehow, and I never learned Java anyway, so Clojure was of limited utility to me since so much stuff seemed handed off to Java built-ins. And I think there is an argument to be made against projects like this, because they're so dependent, but I guess in the case of Hy, that dependence is literally the point. I never felt like it was the case with Clojure, because the host language was so very different from the experimental FP playground Clojurists seem to want.