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You're engaging in base rate neglect: the pool of PHP programmers was vastly larger than the pool of LISP programmers when Facebook was founded.

Consider Assembly as a counter-example.

This is base rate neglect: the percentage of people who are using elite tier languages (LISP, etc) are tiny in comparison to the number of people slinging Ruby/Python/etc. All that…

This is base rate neglect. The percentage of people who are competent enough (or crazy enough) to know a LISP well enough to build a product out of it AND be interested in a startu…

I can only speak from anecdotal memory, but I'm pretty sure Wit.AI primarily used clojure (arguably one of the most expressive lisps of all time) to go from 0 to acquisition in 18(…

Does anybody know of any good articles that discuss the actual performance merits of using npm addons? Aside from raw computation heavy functions (whereby dropping down to C++ woul…

Swig is amazing at quickly converting simple functions (i.e., functions that return an int and other simple types). But if you want to make a C++ function that returns an array or …

This is eerily timely (recently have been dealing with npm addons). Glad to see a good article about this, and am looking forward to the author's ebook. Question on the book (if au…

Is there anything comparable to this in the node.js or clojure world?