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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by Ygg2 on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:57AM (#50391795)
Your entire rave sounds like exactly like a NixOS heavy user ranting about the greatness of flakes and immutability.

And I am left wondering if it is that great why didn't it take over. I think you are ignoring some minor things that make it unpalatable for the most programmers.

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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by Ygg2 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:37AM (#50413253)
> But adoption isn't either.

Gonna pushback on this. Adoption is proof of fitness to purpose in the Worse is Better way.

> Nix has steep learning curve

Not what I meant. I meant more in praise vs. how little you can see it in the wild.

> I am not ignoring them, I speak from my heart

I believe you speak from the heart, the same way I believe NixOS people speak from the heart. Or OpenBSD enthusiasts. The issue isn't the passion, but the way that passion biases you to overlook some corner.

I suspect in Lisp/Clojure case it's the lack of a large community and performance issues. Either the community is uninterested in making Lisp fast, too splintered or ignoring benchmarks.

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