Re:Shen has a BSD License now
by hga on Thursday February 05, 2015 @08:46AM
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What's your opinion on using it for "serious" (i.e. things that might be used by others) open source projects? Say, using Shen as part of the toolbox of an operating system, as Barrelfish uses Haskell (http://www.barrelfish.org/ i.e. the Mackerel DSL to describe system details and the Hake build system).
This is not an idle question, BTW. I'd personally like to do something like Barrelfish and/or a "21st Century Lisp Machine" sort of system, having been part of the 20th Century Lisp Machine community in the early '80s. And my reaction to Haskell's syntax is akin to a lot of people's reactions to Lots of Irritating Sets of Parenthesis.
But Haskell has a very serious community, Shen doesn't, and I strongly suspect it never will.
This is not an idle question, BTW. I'd personally like to do something like Barrelfish and/or a "21st Century Lisp Machine" sort of system, having been part of the 20th Century Lisp Machine community in the early '80s. And my reaction to Haskell's syntax is akin to a lot of people's reactions to Lots of Irritating Sets of Parenthesis.
But Haskell has a very serious community, Shen doesn't, and I strongly suspect it never will.