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A little more context… This is a real decision I’m making with Common Lisp, Guile and Janet as my current leading options. But … I feel like documenting all the thoughts in an essa…

(Sorry that this retreads past threads … but it’s a topic that easily could have different answers over time.) I’m working on a blog post titled “which lisp” (lower case) and am so…

Text run by an interpreter. Different strokes.

It’s not in my mix because it’s a fairly “big” language, which is a huge bonus once you’re proficient but makes it a poor choice for me to dive into Lisp(s). For someone else, that…

LFE lacks it’s own robust web app development stack … and translating between documentation in Elixir (Phoenix) and Lisp all day will make my head hurt. Clojure is a tougher call. …

While I’ve got you… What’s the state-of-the-art story for package management in Gambit?

Thanks, that’s a very helpful insight. You’ve put my mind a significant ease.

In my case, web-based just means "it is a piece of software you access via the web." Web application, website, SAAS, whatever. And you're right, I should have considered Gambit. Da…

Just to be clear: yes, there are other Lisps. Yes, Clojure is cool. Yes, LFE is a thing that exists. Yes Elixir is Lisp-adjacent. Yes, any of those would give me access to a larger…

For a new web-baed project, one I'm doing for fun but hope to make a success, I've pretty much decided to write it in Racket or Anarki. Which one? The problem domain is Lisp-y: con…

To be precise, applets were an early application of Java. But Sun Microsystems actually developed it in the long-standing dream of the “universal binary.” The project began in 1991…

This is a pretty great tool, despite the limitations of existing in iOS-land. It obviously has the same problem any Tor browser has though, you run into bot blocking on a very larg…

And yet I can only read Dante’s original work in Italian!

Arguments about the “superiority” of Python vs Ruby always sound a bit like arguments about the “superiority” of Italian vs Spanish. If you squint a bit they’re basically the same.…

So funny that Rails has gone from “exciting” to “boring” in (relatively) the blink of an eye. But boring is good, nice to see it embraced.

Best post I’ve read on this so far!

This is a really important story. I think about all the requests government agencies make for backdoors to things ... then I read something like this ... Ick.

Of course if you’re one of the platforms, owning some or all of other people’s login processes does happen to be a win for you.

As somebody who loves databases, I think the real issue that folks are meaning to critique isn’t actually using a “model.” It’s using an ActiveRecord-style ORM (or any ORM) without…

Bash is bad and ugly… But I just avoided a day’s worth of development of a little command line utility by adding two alias lines that go into .profile.

Sadly, that might not be a great bet. The world of government software procurement is very, very ugly.

Great idea! Thanks for making it!

Hopeful this will get noticed here and folks will go in and comment (presumably positively or with constructive criticism) to make this frequently used .gitignore better.