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by groundzeros2015 181 days ago
The 10x argument for lisp was more compelling when everyone was using C and Fortran instead of JS and python. The contrasts here do seem pretty small.

The real productivity benefit for me is that the ecosystem is so stable and well documented. You can learn it all and keep it in your head.
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ux266478 181 days ago
Guile is an embedded scripting and configuration language. Its competition is Lua. Which is unfortunate for Guile, because it's even less attractive there.
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ykonstant 181 days ago
What are the pros and cons of Guile wrt Lua?
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ux266478 180 days ago
The only pro I can think of is you get a standard scheme set of batteries, which isn't even really a pro in this space. The biggest con is implementation size and complexity. IIRC the JITter alone is twice the size of LuaJIT's entire codebase, and not for being vastly better.

License problems too, if you're not making copyleft software. Guile is GPL, both Luas are MIT.

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