The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp... by geokon on Monday July 02, 2018 @04:57AM (#17440222)

Having just learned Clojure, I'm kinda sad to say that I agree... It kinda seems like there are a lot of unmaintained libraries and relatively few things being worked on (mostly in the web-tech space which I don't really know anything about)

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Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp... by fnordsensei on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:54AM (#17441599)

I've come across my share of unmaintained libraries in Clojure, but for anyone reading, lack of activity doesn't necessarily mean that a library is unmaintained.

In JS in particular, activity is often used as a proxy for the "maintainedness" of a library. I think this is because JS is (currently) a moving target.

Clojure is one of those languages where, occasionally, problems get solved and don't require any significant further development.

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Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp... by BWStearns on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:56PM (#17444435)

Was about to say the same thing. It took a little while to get used to the idea that seeing `Last updated 2 years ago` didn't mean the library was dead. If I ask in the slack channel about a library I'll very often get a message back in a matter of minutes from the author confirming that it still works.

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