Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020?

Re:Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020? by fsloth on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:28AM (#23233669)

I don't think XML has been 'trendy' for ages :)

XML is totally fine for storing structured dumb data. Don't program in XML.

I would not be so bullish about implementing your own interpreter - as the best obvious choice every time.

Numbers especially are hard to get correct unless you know what you are doing.

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Re:Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020? by justinmeiners on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:38AM (#23234740)

I don't think this user is advocating using home grown interpreters. Rather it's easy to understand how they work completely.

The point is complex configurations tend to grow into a poor programming language. They would be far better as a lisp DSL.

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Re:Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020? by peppery-idiot on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:17PM (#23236590)

Pretty much everything in CI is driven by YAML or JSON or YAML string as a value in a JSON property and they uniformly suck.

So I think GP is correct.

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