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by Antibabelic 36 days ago
Is you actually look at the Lisp ecosystem as it exists today (even just Emacs by itself) you'll quickly realize that none of this is true in practice. Other people have pointed this out.[0]

[0] https://applied-langua.ge/posts/lisp-curse-redemption-arc.ht...
2 comments
Joker_vD 36 days ago
And if then you compare it to e.g. Python (or JS) ecosystem, well. It's all very relative, isn't it?
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Antibabelic 36 days ago
It's not clear to me what you mean, can you elaborate?
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xigoi 35 days ago
Python and JS have more libraries because they are more popular, not because their users are somehow more inclined to collaborate.
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vinceguidry 36 days ago
The curse actually feels more relevant to me to ruby rather than lisp.
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