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> Difficult when the definitive compsci course, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs starts, and ends, with Lisp. Poor choice. > Several decades of computer science di…

> So first you say Lisp is useless in compsci because of the existence of "rust, c and idris", and now its pointless to use it because of ML? Idris and Rust are ML descendants and …

You can do that more efficiently with any ML language. > There's a reason GCC's internals often look like Lisp. Dude, that notation is not original to lisp...

Your sentences are the same : "it's so powerful" - it's ridiculous that there are ppl who call themselves programmers and still like js.

No I don't have any experience in its memory management and I don't need it.

> Javascript IS a powerful language with features that were not in other mainstream language for decades and some still don't have: first class functions, dynamic typing, lambda fu…

> But if you are "computer SCIENCE"-school and you targeting variety of fundamental cocepts of field I say that lisp is quite essential. I'm sure you've nothing to do with compsci …

Don't like my negative experience with lisp? I could guess it from your username.

> JavaScript has also successfully escaped perception of "a language for brains". Research background is actually harmful for a modern programming language. Those who consider java…

No, it shouldn't be. Lisp is not practical(try to prove it otherwise, there's no evidence) and it's only a thing now because some ppl likes its esoteric syntax. It's way too overhy…

Yeah, nix doesn't feel right on debian because it can't manage services and doesn't use the "standard" packaging idioms. Is there someone else with a different experience or a work…

You're using linux from 1999 and you've problems like this: "I spent two weeks trying to make my ctrl/capslock swap stick and not reset every time the computer slept/resumed."? It'…

> Because I spent 4 hours today trying to figure out how to prevent something from starting on boot Learn systemd then? Or use the "Startup" app? > I spent two weeks trying to make…

> Lisp under SBCL is as fast as Java under the latest Oracle JVM and for numeric computation is sometimes as fast as Fortran. Back it up. > I routinely read third-party Lisp librar…

> The performance claim doesn't really matter in a world where we use languages like Python, Ruby, PHP and Javascript for major applications. Yes, it does. And those languages are …

> I shouldn't have to go to terminal to edit a conf file to make audio or video work. I never needed to. > It does not work out of the box. It does. > You must know how to use term…

> Linux is a great server OS but a really terrible choice on the desktop. Why?

> It's unfortunate that ML and Lisp didn't gain greater traction but that's likely due to Unix. Lisp and ML are competing by nature(MLs are famous from their typesystems) and their…

Where is the proof on vscode being "fast"? And compared to what? I can only talk about my and some of my friends' personal experience but it won't praise vscode's performance. It's…

They changed their strategy?

> Atom's defenders always bring up that it was made with electron as the reason for it's slowness.Then, VSCode came along and invalidated that. How so?

> Having a single static type system that captures all differences across all versions of all browsers is not realistic. Why? Standards and abstractions are useful. > But even if i…

Both Objective-C and Java are statically and strongly typed. What you're thinking about is probably a runtime-reflection mechanism. The JVM, java's host is capable of supporting dy…

> Requiring explicit type declarations is usually unnecessary and always a nuisance. Except at function declarations and similar - they help to make the code more readable. It's no…