Doing Hard Things While Living Life: Why We Built Vade Studio in Clojure

Re:Doing Hard Things While Living Life: Why We Built Vade St... by iLemming on Saturday January 11, 2025 @05:37AM (#42664896)

I didn't say "type declarations can lead to a messy middle ground in Common Lisp" - obviously they exist there for a reason, but, maybe they DON'T exist in Clojure, also for good reasons, no?

ABCL does exist, sure, and there's also LCL for Lua. Yet, 8 out of 10 developers today, for whatever reasons would probably use Fennel to write Lispy-code to target Lua and probably more devs would choose Clojure (not ABCL) to target JVM. That doesn't make either Fennel nor Clojure "far superior" than Common Lisp and vice-versa.

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Re:Doing Hard Things While Living Life: Why We Built Vade St... by lispm on Saturday January 11, 2025 @06:06AM (#42665044)

> I didn't say "type declarations can lead to a messy middle ground in Common Lisp" - obviously they exist there for a reason, but, maybe they DON'T exist in Clojure, also for good reasons, no?

What were those reasons?

> ABCL does exist, sure,

Would that count as a hosted implementation?

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