[karl_gluck]

This is a more interesting take to me than others since it seems you’ve actually learned it?

I see the response later that you’d rather use whatever the team already uses, but could you explain this very strong opinion?

I maintained a 200,000 loc TCL codebase running the front end for millions of lines of industrial C spread over hundreds of machines. It was glorious. After moving on, I’m still struggling to figure out why TCL is so unpopular outside that domain. Other comments seem to boil down to not understanding the language or how to apply it. So what’s your take?

[IggleSniggle]

That does sound glorious. And, to be clear, I am merely an amateur (lover of) rather than experienced practitioner. It’s also the only lisp-like I’ve learned, and it gets a fair amount of credit from me on those grounds alone. At any rate, the opinion is very strong because 1) the pragmatic angle that I’ve already mentioned, 2) the tooling hasn’t kept up, 3) the performance isn’t worth fighting for (although it’s really still fairly good), 4) the footguns are gloriously just around the corner.

I don’t know if all lisps suffer from that last one, and I don’t know about you, but there seems to be a clever solution hiding in every line. I think it would take discipline to have a codebase that remained cohesive and in a “single language”