> I know people were making fun of his smug (in his slides he is like raise your hand if you use CL without Quicklisp, no hands?, ah that's right) But let's be

> I know people were making fun of his smug (in his slides he is like raise your hand if you use CL without Quicklisp, no hands?, ah that's right) But let's be honest here. When it first launched, Quicklisp went from 0 to 80% of the market basically overnight, and 100% within the first year or so. This is in part because the previous "state of the art" was so terrible that anything would have been an improvement, but it was not as if there hadn't been other efforts. Quicklisp addressed the workflows that CL implementation and library hackers wanted to use, and therefore quickly commanded a lot of respect. Everything that had existed previously had seemed like a toy for beginners (e.g. the different variations on Lisp-in-a-box). It really was a night and day difference.