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by diggan 544 days ago
> Now that types and tools are advancing, static Lisps are feasible, and I love that.

Haven't that been feasible for a pretty long time already? Judging by how well-received (or not) they've been, it seems there isn't much demand for it. Things like clojure.spec and alike (compile-time + run-time typing) seems much more popular, but isn't static.

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There isn’t much demand for Lisps in general.
I think given the sheer amount of them that is demonstrably false
Many have been created, but how many have significant usage?
People make a lot as their side projects through the easy parsing, what software is being made with them? (besides the usual hacker news backend response)
Have you used one at work? I would surely love to but haven’t had the chance yet.
Apropos, this crossed my feedreader today: https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/mid-senior-clojure...
Clojure is fairly popular (I'm using it at work, though I'd prefer Scheme of course)