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Re:Lisp in Space by lisper on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:02AM (#31245181)
That is a very difficult question to answer succinctly. From a technical point of view, Common Lisp has never been in better shape, particularly since the advent of Quicklisp. Just about any functionality you would want is available as a CL library through QL. Programming in CL today is easier than it ever was. But on the other hand, it does not seem to be attracting a lot of young blood. The cool kids all seem to be using Clojure or Haskell or Rust or, heaven help us, Javascript.

So I hope Lisp has a bright future, but I wouldn't be my life savings on it right now.

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Re:Lisp in Space by nonrandomstring on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:35PM (#31253898)
> it does not seem to be attracting a lot of young blood.

In my experience "space" sells to the kids more than money, fast cars and fame. So thanks for your inspiring writing about your work - I'm looking for ways to convince the dean to let me switch some courses from Python (which has jobs) to Lisp (which has excitement, space adventures and really wild things).

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Re:Lisp in Space by lisper on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:57PM (#31254139)
LMK if there's anything I can do to help with that.
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Re:Lisp in Space by dunefox on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @12:25PM (#31262622)
Racket might be an easier sell, especially when it comes to tooling since it's much easier to pick up for one course.
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Re:Lisp in Space by trenchgun on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @01:13AM (#31256984)
At least it's not Java.
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