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Re:LispyScript: A JavaScript With Lispy Syntax And Macros by erichocean on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:01PM (#4556110)
editing Lisp without a paren-counting editor is just as tedious as one would expect

That's the real barrier, IMO. Who wants to switch editors just to learn a new language with an (apparently) impoverished syntax?

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Re:LispyScript: A JavaScript With Lispy Syntax And Macros by ScottBurson on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:13PM (#4556161)
Hmm. How many editors people actually use these days don't have a usable Lisp mode? I don't think your choices are limited to Emacs anymore. I'm fairly sure Vim has one; I don't know for sure, but would be very surprised if Eclipse didn't; not sure what else people are using.

If it really is the case that all Lisp needs to really take off is editor plugins for IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio -- hmm -- maybe we should do that.

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