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Re:Years in Common Lisp: 2022 in review by smcl on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:56AM (#34322982)
May I ask why? I've no dog in this fight (I don't work with Java) but I've seen plenty of people against Java the language who were very happy to use Scala or Clojure. I haven't encountered anyone who has specifically said they were against the JVM, so I'm interested whether it's something technical (maybe you do more real-time or work with resource-constrained systems) or if it's something more personal. There are no bad answers, I'm not looking for an argument just genuinely curious :)
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Re:Years in Common Lisp: 2022 in review by dgan on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:15AM (#34325113)
Copy pasted: Why => because JVM is poor no fit for CLI, and is a poor fit for games. Those two fields in which I see myself using common-lisp.

Unsure what's so wierd about it, everyone (most) knows about slow cold startup times, and inability to control memory layout in JVM. Also, horrible C bindings

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Re:Years in Common Lisp: 2022 in review by smcl on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:06AM (#34325913)
I didn't say it was weird :(

Just was curious if it was one of the commonly encountered things (which you listed) or if there were some other limitations I wasn't aware of.

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