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A comment on Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024. Parent comment

Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by behnamoh on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:06PM (#39309580)
honestly these sorts of sentiments (in the link) remind me of the "lisp gives you enlightenment, lisp is the language of gods" etc. that we've heard for decades. I love lisp, but come on, gods?
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Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by Aeolun on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:39PM (#39309858)
Have you seen lisp? To understand even a bit if that you’d have to be god level.

Not that gods don’t make mistakes. But I kind of see where they’re coming from.

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Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by outworlder on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:57PM (#39310024)
> Have you seen lisp? To understand even a bit if that you’d have to be god level.

Are we talking about parenthesis here again?

It's easy to understand a well written Lisp codebase once you are familiar with its concepts. What you can't do is try to read it when all your prior programing exposure is from, say, the Algol language tree.

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Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by behnamoh on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:01PM (#39310542)
> Have you seen lisp?

Yes: https://aplaceofmind.notion.site/It-s-Lambdas-All-the-Way-Do...

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