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by cracauer 2389 days ago
A quick look at what Quicklisp has to offer for libraries should quickly convince people that fooling around with anything but Common Lisp would be very energy-consuming.

http://blog.quicklisp.org/

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Racket has a package manager and plenty of packages. https://pkgs.racket-lang.org

It's also an actively developed modern language not stuck in the 80s.

Question: how lean does a Racket GUI app run? Any samples I can use? Just did the tutorial and I really loved it!

Only thing that’s difficult for me right now is named parameters because I’ve been using Objective C which is really clear on that front.

If they can be hooked together too...that would be fun :)

A quick look at what the job market has to offer (for those who interested in Lisp) should quickly convince people that learning anything but Clojure would be not only energy-consuming but also impractical.
I know this isn't Reddit, but "nick checks out".

Knowledge and skill useful for finding a job is not all the knowledge that is good.

Clojure was developed by someone called Rich Hickey. Not only were there no Clojure jobs when he started hacking, there was no Clojure. That's a textbook example of an energy-consuming and impractical waste of time.

For almost every piece of technology listed in a job ad that you think is worth knowing, someone had to put in a whole lot of time and energy, not knowing if it will pan out at all, and often that time and energy were uncompensated by anything other than the existence of the thing in the end.

You are right. I was just trying to semi-sarcastically mimic the comment, to address "anything but Common Lisp would be very energy-consuming"
These guys are always looking for good coders. Fancy moving into Lisbon or Porto?

https://www.siscog.pt/en/

https://franz.com/success/customer_apps/scheduling/siscog.lh...