[winestock]

I'm the author of this essay. This must be at least the third time that it has appeared on Hacker News. I'm starting to get sick of it, myself, but I keep it up because so many people like it (at the bottom of the page, you can see the translations; all done gratis by volunteers).

I wrote it during a period when I was especially fascinated with Lisp and got caught up in the theorizing to which the Lisp community can be prone. Nowadays, I freelance in front-end web development and doing Lisp hacking is something that I put on the back-burner.

[Scarbutt]

so you just use javascript? I'm in that period of fascination, any practical advice? ;)

[winestock]

For now, yes. My life has taken some unexpected detours, these past few years, so I have to focus on work rather than inspiration.

[pareidolia]

Have you ever put (any, as in CL, Scheme etc.) Lisp into practice? I got the impression from the essay that you think that everything in a Lisp consists of macros, which is not the case.