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by snazz 2691 days ago
I’ll be the outlier: I’m working on learning Chicken Scheme, because it’s a new paradigm and most of the libraries and frameworks I need are already there.

So far, I’m surprised at how easy it is to get started writing a web app with the Awful framework (for my fairly simple needs, it’s anything but awful). Then again, I’m not employed as a programmer, so I’m not evaluating new languages based solely on practicality.