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by abrax3141 1425 days ago
I’ve run lisp in production (SBCL). Fast to develop and run, and solid. Unfortunately the engineering team tasked with taking the product forward decided to rewrite it entirely in some version of react on (the quite unfortunately named, from my point of view) AWS lambdas because the frameworks these days are so choc full of stuff, most importantly security stuff!, that nothing can really compete with them anymore, even though the engineering overhead to use them is massive. (Edit: To be fair, the engineering overhead for me to write all that crap into Lisp would have been way more massive.) As a non-user-facing back-end, however, lisp is fantastic.