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by callinyouin 2562 days ago
I get that the article used Common Lisp to create the punny title and much of its contents are broadly about why its important to keep languages relatively small, but I'm sort of disappointed most of the language-specific talk was about JS. I'm in the middle of learning CL at the moment (I have a mostly Java, Python, C++ background, in that order of experience) and would be interested to hear from experienced Lispers on why some other Lisp would be a better choice at a language level (so not based on convenience, tooling, popularity, etc... okay, maybe tooling).
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Racket seems to be favoured individuals who are using it to create a DSL or accomplish very specific tasks, but CL is definitely the most used Lisp (well, maybe apart from Clojure) to create 'big' applications.