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by vindarel 1717 days ago
There are some jobs. We see announces on /r/lisp, Twitter, LinkedIn… sometimes very informal ones. Some companies still pick up CL, for instance: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ (it's possible that Ravenpack is still hiring?). A good way is of course to learn CL and have something ready to show. Some announces don't require a (commercial) Lisp background though, they seek high-level engineers. Another way is to use CL for yourself, at current job or not. There's plenty of space for that. I use it for new services, instead of extending a Python aging monolith (DB access, FTP connection, XML parsing of a big dataset, a simple web frontend,…). I have even been doing live reloads for a year, installing new libraries while the app is running, and it's been a joy so far. I found one bug (with Sentry alerts of course), because I used = where a number could be nil. So I use `equal`. I am happy, I am productive, deployment is easy and the app is fast.