[birdfood]

I'm really quite drawn to lisp (in general) but I keep bouncing off it. I think the main reason is I just don't know how to effectively work with a dynamically typed programming language. I think for me the affordances that a language provides to change a program over time matter much more than the features that aid in writing programs. I want to know before I run my program whether my program is sound. I appreciate what other people are able to do with lisp(s) and I want to experience that for myself. But I think what I need is to let go of having a compiler yell at me when I remove a field from a type but that I still have functions that expect that field (for example). Is it just more tests? Live REPL editing? It seems like this can only cover so much surface area compared to compile time type checking. I don't think statically typed languages are better than dynamic ones or vice-versa. I just am not as effective with the dynamic ones.