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by coldtea 3610 days ago
>I still do wonder why reddit was reimplemented in Python

Because they new Python better and/or it has a better and vastly bigger ecosystem and libs, and it being Lisp only gave the very marginal returns of being cool to your programming peers.
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qwertyuiop924 3610 days ago
Python had better libs. And they wrote web.py. Which is just barely less cool than Flask.
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mbrock 3610 days ago
That seems like an unnecessary jab.
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coldtea 3610 days ago
Not if it's true.

Python does have a better and vastly bigger ecosystem and libs.

And doing something in Lisp doesn't offer any huge benefits over Python -- besides the cool factor.

Sure, Lisp has some tricks Python doesn't have -- macros, homoiconicity, uniform syntax, etc -- but still with those, in real life, people haven't been able to come with anything like an order of magnitude or at least several times better programs or faster development than with something like Python.

Just ask Norvig.

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fractallyte 3610 days ago
Actually, someone did ask Norvig... ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803627

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