Ask HN: Silence in Lisp community

#1

Post by kung-fu-master » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 7:58 AM UTC

What happened with Lisp community? There is no new announces, success stories etc. Lisp bloggers stopped to update their blogs. Is this the end of Lisp era? Maybe Python/Ruby/... occupied a niche of Lisp?

Re: Ask HN: Silence in Lisp community

#2

Post by JoachimSchipper » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 9:58 AM UTC

Clojure is making a lot of noise, at least.

Re: Ask HN: Silence in Lisp community

#3

Post by Luyt » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 10:35 AM UTC

The Lisp era will never end. As a matter of fact, it rebooted a few years ago with the birth of Clojure. #Clojure on FreeNode is a very active channel.

Re: Ask HN: Silence in Lisp community

#4

Post by skocikk » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 2:28 PM UTC

Maybe because they are busy programming (check Github). Writing code is usually more fun than writing blogs.

Re: Ask HN: Silence in Lisp community

#5

Post by kung-fu-master » Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

skocikk wrote: post #4

Maybe because they are busy programming (check Github). Writing code is usually more fun than writing blogs.

I have found 31 repos on Common Lisp. Clojure - 3956 repos.

Compare to: Ruby - 141811 repos. Python - 67482 repos.

It seems that writing on Ruby is more fun than writing in Lisp.