Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
by hansvm on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:34PM
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Perhaps. I just never found it useful to spend a day learning the failure modes and edge cases of a general-purpose library I could hack into my use case with enough wrapper code handling the impedence mismatch when I could spend a day building exactly what we need, with the added benefit of owning the code when requirements inevitably change. Like, I'll use numpy at least half the time for numeric code; I'm not a masochist; but most libraries just don't pull their weight.
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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
by anonreplier on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:00PM
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Did anyone else have to maintain this code?
Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
by hansvm on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:40PM
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Of course.
Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
by anonreplier on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:46AM
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at least we have claude now I guess