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by vinalia 4499 days ago
LISP is still a great language for web programming! [1]

Lately it seems like more people are doing compile to JS (like asm.js and Mozilla's emscripten work in Odin Monkey [2]) which fits in perfectly with LISP dialects. Programmers can still create their own DSLs, macros, compilers, etc. in LISP and use them for modern web apps today. Just because this is a less popular/documented route doesn't mean it isn't possible. I hope we'll see a rise in LISP web programming pretty soon.

It would be fun if someone could write a compiler for a new ClojureScript dialect that targets asm.js and takes advantage of CPS for recursion like Scheme does.

[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Javascript:SpiderMonkey:OdinMonkey