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by at_a_remove
2233 days ago
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No, I do not worry about feeling fervor. I tend to be intensely repelled whenever I detect that sort of thing in others. I must select a side because I have to install something. The problem I have had with this approach is that, through the clouds of dust and smoke, through the constant shelling and the screams of the dying, I cannot seem to discern which side has that bare minimum set of properties that I want. Namely, can run on Windows without it being a ridiculous exercise in hackery, comes with a robust set of libraries that I can end up using it to solve actual problems I might eventually receive money for solving, and has enough study material to lead me through it. None of these are negotiable to me and as far as I can tell, these objectives haven't even been considered by the various sides in this forever war. And so I will do what I always have done, which is take a peek, observe the chaos, and then wait another five years to see if anything has gotten any better. I did the whole "enlightenment" thing once with Prolog. It ended up not having any impact on anything I wrote. The enlightenment wasn't portable. I could not use it to solve actual problems I had. I could use it to solve toy problems in a toy world, and maybe there are spots where it could have overlapped with a part of the world I wasn't in, but I wasn't going to migrate just to find a way to get paid using Prolog. At the end of the day, I was still chopping wood and carrying water. |
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Racket seems to tick all of your boxes, IMO. Also maybe Clojure. I've gotten both to work without much problem on Windows, both have an ecosystem and plenty of tutorials.