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by Grue3 4093 days ago
When I submitted my Lisp project, it didn't get even a single upvote. Maybe I should've mentioned I wrote it in Lisp to enjoy the grace of this invisible Lisp brigade, but I always felt it's tacky to submit stuff like "X but written in Go/Javascript/whatever!!!" because it basically shows that you're just reinventing the bicycle. The project should stand on its own regardless of the language it's written in.
2 comments

If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572800, that looks cool and you should repost it. Randomness more than suffices to explain why it didn't get upvoted.

I recommend providing more detail about how it works, to gratify readers' curiosity.

Right on. I wish more people thought this way.