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by kazinator 1273 days ago
I've not secretly added Lisp code to the actual product, but I regularly do supporting work in Lisp: everything from personal tooling that doesn't affect everyone else to research items: prototyping, data analysis and whatnot. Mostly, I use TXR Lisp; a Lisp dialect I made myself that's good for this sort of use.
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Here is a recent example: a program which uses the Gerrit web API to extract comments from review items and turn them into output that looks like compiler diagnostics. I can feed that to my editor to navigate through the code and fix the commented issues. It is called ger2err:

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/ger2err/about/