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Great work! You write, > …wasm has a few poor decisions in its design that make it less-than-conducive to being a target for Common Lisp… Could you say a bit more about those design decisions?
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?! I know that even the language itself is kind of the opposite of "beautiful", but the way all docs, blogs, websites etc. look ...seriously, is this intended to scare away any aesthetically sensitive p…
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?! I know that even the language itself is kind of the opposite of "beautiful", but the way all docs, blogs, websites etc. look ...seriously, is this intended to scare away any aesthetically sensitive p…
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?! I know that even the language itself is kind of the opposite of "beautiful", but the way all docs, blogs, websites etc. look ...seriously, is this intended to scare away any aesthetically sensitive p…
I think this aspect of ignoring UIs and aesthetics has seriously held back CL.
Great work! You write, > …wasm has a few poor decisions in its design that make it less-than-conducive to being a target for Common Lisp… Could you say a bit more about those design decisions?
I think a major limitation is that a WebAssembly module can’t run dynamically generated code, which is a huge part of typical Common Lisp implementations.
Why does it have that limitation, and is there any hope that it will someday be overcome?
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?! I know that even the language itself is kind of the opposite of "beautiful", but the way all docs, blogs, websites etc. look ...seriously, is this intended to scare away any aesthetically sensitive p…
I think aesthetics is sometimes equated to "superficiality", "commerciality" even "girlishness" and the surface impression tends to be the polar opposite for niches that really want to distance themselves from anything such. Which is not commendable but there you go.
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?! I know that even the language itself is kind of the opposite of "beautiful", but the way all docs, blogs, websites etc. look ...seriously, is this intended to scare away any aesthetically sensitive p…
Talking about the page behind the link - it's not like Sistine chapel, of course, but it's completely ok. In digital realm your perception is very strongly affected by medium/device/environment. Maybe that's the case. Not commenting about hyperspec though
I don't know if I feel more or less betrayed by the fact that the HTML seems to be more or less bespoke and a screen reader would have no problem with the page, but all of these choices feel all the more intentional.
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?! I know that even the language itself is kind of the opposite of "beautiful", but the way all docs, blogs, websites etc. look ...seriously, is this intended to scare away any aesthetically sensitive p…
i agree. its amazing. yhe hyperspec is unreadable anyway... never really helped me at all
I'm thankful it is a simple HTML page that could be easily formatted using browser-built-in tools.
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?! I know that even the language itself is kind of the opposite of "beautiful", but the way all docs, blogs, websites etc. look ...seriously, is this intended to scare away any aesthetically sensitive p…