Pity that Python did not embrace the Lisp features related to machine code generation.

You mean having bytecode and native code ? maybe they can start that for 3.2+ .. surely it would be more interesting than optional type signatures :)

Yes.

It's interesting, lisps, [o|oca]ml .. have often both, but somehow this practice never went mainstream.. even js got huge influx of money to push vm super fast but no native code practices.

I consider Java and .NET mainstream enough. :)

traumatic selective memory at work

I agree. And I think that the constant BS claims of certain Lisp advocates actually damages the Lisp community. Especially the silly “I am smarter because I use Lisp” claims you often see in Lisp articles. My answer is always: OK great. Why don’t you instead first build some impressive stuff in Lisp and then show us how Lisp made it possible for you to build it 10x faster. Then you might actually make people believe you. Especially given that pretty much all successful software out there is written in (or run on top of) C/C++.

this is just personal taste but i think that GNU Emacs blows any other software ever written out of every universe that ever existed :)

Maybe because it is written in C? Hehehehe :)

its written in emacs lisp and c. most of the code base is in the former :)

Ask Vi lovers if they agree :)

of course they do. they just chose evil-mode

Hahaha you are funny.