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People here still get excited about LISP, too. I can understand Clojure, but Lisp, come on! It was in the 80s and 90s when I used LISP for AI and my favorite mu
by kolev 12y ago
People here still get excited about LISP, too. I can understand Clojure, but Lisp, come on! It was in the 80s and 90s when I used LISP for AI and my favorite muLISP, but it's 2015 already! So, this is a boutique community, don't make generalization from it. Atom is doing pretty well for its infancy!
I was super excited about Intype in the past - much more excited about anybody could be about Sublime. After many, many years and ruined potential, I gave up. Just recently found that it's still alive. I remember e as well. It got open-sourced... and what? There are many editors, but Atom has all indications that's it's here to stay! I'm not so sure about Sublime given the patterns. A loyal community is not enough - a dedicated development team is what's most important!
- wodenokoto 12y agoI just looked more deeply into the update cycle of Sublime and apparently the dev channel has weekly updates. I guess that they haven't been good at communicating that they are not in hiatus!
- kolev 12y agoThe activity is recent. There was a 6-month gap with nothing being done at all. Pretty much during this gap Atom got born.
- weavie 12y agoPeople got excited about Richard III (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32014296 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32014296) and he's from the 1400's. I can understand Prince George, but Richard, come on!
- kolev 12y agoDidn't know HN means Historian News. People just are so excited about LISP here, because of some loyalty to Paul Graham. Smalltalk and Forth get a lot less attention than LISP although they share a lot of its beauty - simple yet powerful syntax. Well, sometimes I also wonder if this is Haskell News, too. :)