Re:Profound Beliefs
by shrubble on Sunday September 10, 2023 @03:03PM
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The difference I would point out, is that Rust has corporate sponsorship. I don't recall any large corporations sponsoring e.g CMUCL/SBCL to the same level.
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There are plenty of counterexamples here, with languages that had corporate sponsorship but did not succeed (e.g. Go) and vice versa (Perl, Python).
In the case of Lisp, it was done in by two things: AI winter, and the fact that the Lisp community was never able to organize itself. This is the famous "Lisp curse": it is precisely the fact that Lisp is a productivity multiplier that seals its fate because it allows individuals to get things done without collaborating.
This is the famous "Lisp curse"
It was done in / seals its fate
https://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html
I always thought this essay was a great take on Lisp(ers), but it's interesting how those sort of statements eventually can self-perpetuate a couple negative events into a state of learned helplessness.