Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp
by tmountain on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:51AM
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I like lightweight and fresh too, but the JVM and Node both provide a tremendous amount of “batteries included” ecosystem value.
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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp
by doteka on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:47PM
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See I get why you’d say that about the JVM, but as someone working in Node daily I don’t find the server side JavaScript ecosystem particularly useful. As soon as you need to do anything else than database CRUD, you’re basically on your own.