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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by tester89 on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:32AM (#22770258)
It’s not super common anymore but it is used.

Some examples:

• Clojure which runs on the JVM enjoys considerable popularity.

• Common Lisp seems to be popular amongst Quantum Computing researchers.

• Racket enjoys popularity by way of the Pollen Typesetting Engine.

• Emacs Lisp is used for all Emacs scripting.

• AutoLisp is used to script code for AutoCAD

• HackerNews is written in ArcLisp.

• Square Enix employs a proprietary dialect as a scripting language.

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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by eatonphil on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:36AM (#22770291)
Many GNU programs come with a builtin Scheme interpreter (gdb, for example).
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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by leethargo on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:10PM (#22771608)
You mean GNU Guile?
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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by eatonphil on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:15PM (#22771666)
Yep [0]. However GIMP does not use Guile, it uses TinyScheme for it's Script-Fu [1].

[0] https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb.html#Guile

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyScheme

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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by gaze on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:06PM (#22775910)
It’s not popular among quantum computing groups. We largely use python. It’s popular in a group inside rigetti.
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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by mike_ivanov on Saturday April 04, 2020 @01:37AM (#22776418)
1. https://www.schloerconsulting.com/quantum-computer-q-lisp-pr...

2. https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/senior-software-en...

Neither of them is Rigetti.

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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by gaze on Sunday April 05, 2020 @07:46PM (#22789709)
The first seems like a nonserious thing and D-Wave is a crank company.
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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by mike_ivanov on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:02AM (#22820884)
Aye, no TRUE quantum computing company (except for Rigetti) wid dae that!
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Re:Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler by tester89 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @06:46PM (#22808297)
I guess I assumed Stylewarning was representative, although I'm not surprised at the use of python, I probably would've expected that had I not seen Stylewarning's video.
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