Re:Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020?
by flavio81 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:29PM
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>I think Reddit's decision to move from Common Lisp
That original Reddit system was very simple, yet the Lisp source code was of poor quality (it is currently available on the web). When it was released, the lispers at comp.lang.lisp said they could write a clone in a few days. One of them did it in about 2 or 3 hours (true story).
So it wasn't good code. Moreover they, for some strange reason, chose to develop using a different implementation than the one in the server, and things like that.
Then Reddit got a famous name recommended by PG, who was a Python expert. So he rewrote the thing in Python and obviously, being a Python expert, did a good job.
That original Reddit system was very simple, yet the Lisp source code was of poor quality (it is currently available on the web). When it was released, the lispers at comp.lang.lisp said they could write a clone in a few days. One of them did it in about 2 or 3 hours (true story).
So it wasn't good code. Moreover they, for some strange reason, chose to develop using a different implementation than the one in the server, and things like that.
Then Reddit got a famous name recommended by PG, who was a Python expert. So he rewrote the thing in Python and obviously, being a Python expert, did a good job.