Re:Why Lisp?
by ctrlmeta on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:26AM
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I asked the question and this list does help. I mean it is not news to anybody that there are other languages that are vastly more popular than Lisp. The whole point of maintaining a list like is that there are so few examples of Lisp, so a list like this might end up convincing someone who is skeptical about whether Lisp is a good fit for production-grade software or not. So for that, I think this list is pretty good.
The only minor nit I can pick here is that most (all?) of these seem to be proprietary software where someone college student learning to program cannot easily contribute. But there are tons and tons of Go and Rust projects where college students can contribute. A similar list of open source projects written in Lisp can be very helpful too because that would mean I don't have to find an employment in one of these few companies to be able to contribute something useful with Lisp.
The only minor nit I can pick here is that most (all?) of these seem to be proprietary software where someone college student learning to program cannot easily contribute. But there are tons and tons of Go and Rust projects where college students can contribute. A similar list of open source projects written in Lisp can be very helpful too because that would mean I don't have to find an employment in one of these few companies to be able to contribute something useful with Lisp.