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Reasons why I no longer develop my apps

The sense of security is provided by a good test suite (which you still need) plus SBCL type annotations.

Thanks for the correction.

That's true of any language or project to be fair. Big egos are everywhere in software development.

I also view it a as practical skill. I'm paid to write in a practical language which is mutating into a monster I no longer consider fun to write in. But as I started a new project…

I didn't give any career advice at all. Why did you think this was it? My career advice would be to keep developing in whatever established and practical language you are using and…

I have used CL before, but not in anger.

Yes. I used Clozure CL before and now I use Lem as editor. But I stick to SBCL (at least for now, though I can see myself using CCL again when it supports ARM64). As for LispWorks,…

Blog post author here: True. But there's no reason not to write when you are in anger about other languages that you do use every single day. I guess I was just venting and also re…

The wheel has been reinvented in different shapes and for different purposes for a long time. It's not necessarily a bad thing. You don't want to keep using stone wheels, or wooden…

The whole C land, including build tools, old unix utils, is a security mess waiting to be exploited, and it's going to be exploited. Just look how easy it's to break everything wit…

I'm mostly a Mac developer and making macOS products. I'm thinking about building my next product as cross platform with Qt6, but I can't stop thinking about the product ending up …

People want cheap software, and that’s what they get.

Well, it’s just a click away if you press “Download on the Mac App Store”. But I could add that info too. Thanks!

Damn, I thought I did.

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