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by mananaysiempre
1037 days ago
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Eh. Giant headaches is overstating it, I think, if we're talking Lisp post 2005 or 2010: Common Lisp implementations are largely compatible; Racket only has one implementation (and no spec); in Scheme you'll have to spend a bit of time porting between the three or four big implementations that can actually run your stuff, big whoop. (On this forum I probably have to mention Arc, but I don't believe it ever grew beyond a personal project.) I'd say that the main obstacle to adoption was rather the (apparent) absence of shinies (and boy were there a lot of competing shinies at the time). Even if this were correct, though, my experience is that I find very little enjoyment in things that are targeted at what in your terms is success. For example, Go feels dreadfully unpleasant even though I can't deny the good—occasionally downright brilliant—engineering that went into it, kind of like a mass-produced concrete residential building. Let's be honest, I'm in this largely for the hackery, a little bit for the feeling of having solved somebody's problem, and not in the slightest for the social acceptance. You might not agree here (or you might!), but I hope that, if one day nobody does, I still have the self-awareness to step away from the computer and go do something else. |
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For me Go feels like Pascal cut off C's face and is wearing it Hannibal Lector style.
That said, it's an absolutely fabulous language, standard library included, for implementing a worldwide ads serving network. Gotta give them that. For other problems that are more or less technically similar it's also great.