Re:Show HN: A notebook-style Common Lisp environment
by mmargerum on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:31AM
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>I have come to a point in my career where I want to stick to highly complex, but slightly dusty artifacts defined by a standard( C++ & ANSI Common Lisp)....
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>PS. I am 25. Seems relevant to this discussion.
This made me LOL. I figured you were 50 or older based on the top of your post. You are wise to pick languages that are proven and "just work " though. I would say Go, while young, is incredibly stable and predictable.
Common Lisp may be old, but it is extremely powerful relative to Clojure IMO. Clojure startup times are awful, it takes a very opinionated approach to programming (immutable data), its debugger is buggy, it produces unsightly error messages.
Sure, these problems may be fixed, but for me, I want a powerful tool that I can use now.
I've tried several new hot languages at the time (Rust, Dart, Clojure, Go).
I have come to a point in my career where I want to stick to highly complex, but slightly dusty artifacts defined by a standard( C++ & ANSI Common Lisp).
The SBCL implementation of common lisp does not give me all of the headaches of Clojure. I also don't have to restart the repl to load libs.
On using another dynamic language that isn't a lisp... Forget about it.
...Python maybe for machine learning, but I will probably just wrap cafe in CL or something.
PS. I am 25. Seems relevant to this discussion.