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by baq 18 days ago
lisp can do things that make the currently accepted as standard best practice software engineering processes redundant, but it needs a different set of processes which I’m not sure are written about anywhere since apparently nobody is running with e.g. hot patching of application code
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I'm doing fully interpreted Lisp with the AST stored in Postgres. I can access the REPL remotely and I honestly dont know if I'm ever going to build an API or CLI again
This sounds super interesting. Do you have any blog or pointers where I could read more about this?
https://pricklypear.rocks/welcome https://pricklypear.rocks/code

Just to be clear this is not a release, lol, I just made it to show a couple buddies. My one friend was saying he learned a lot just by reading code and pointing Claude at it and asking questions about what he didn't understand. It is provided as-is with no warranty, or installation instructions. If you really get stoked about it I could probably clean up multi user stuff a bit to get you logged on, but I think even just the idea is pretty neat.

If you got it popular you could license it to AWS and sell it as an Elastic Lisp Machine or something