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I wish LISP 2 was never abandoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISP_2
It exists somehow with Elixir. It's not homoiconic and the interactive development experience is far from being as good as Common Lisp or even Clojure but it supports metaprogramming at an advanced level, is functional and dynamically typed.
I released this in 2016. It was a significant undertaking and I burned out pretty hard afterwards. I was operating under a naive "if you build it, they will come" model whereby building a modern-looking website, the community would coalesce around it and contribute to the wiki etc. But my "rallying people behind a cause" skills were insufficient.
One nice contribution: at the time Common Lisp didn't really have an official logo, which I felt was bad for marketing. So my friend made one: https://github.com/LispLang/lisplang.github.io/blob/master/a...
This was decidedly a social rather than technical effort, and social problems are hard to solve.
Common lisp is cool but I really wish it wouldn't be an ANSI standard so the language development would continue. The current standard library is a bit limiting and there are a bunch of good ideas that it could borrow from Clojure (literals? Anyone?)
That's my personal opinion, but I think that programming language pages should have more information density. I also think that using your average "startup template" for Common Lisp is a bit weird. A good example of what I like might be the OCaml homepage https://lisp-lang.org/ , the Go homepage https://golang.org/ . The Haskell homepage has a REPL with a tutorial, which encourages you to play around with the languag…
Common lisp is cool but I really wish it wouldn't be an ANSI standard so the language development would continue. The current standard library is a bit limiting and there are a bunch of good ideas that it could borrow from Clojure (literals? Anyone?)
Why do we see programming language webpages and Wikipedia pages submission from time to time?
Because thats what Hacker News is: A site which people ping with interesting and noteworthy things they stumble about and then other people decide if they think it's actually noteworthy until it's either on the front page or dropped out. Wikipedia and other web pages can be quite noteworthy. Through sure once everyone has seen it it's no longer note worthy. That's why some really noteworthy things pop up on HN again…
Hey, I made this! Feel free to ask anything. I released this in 2016. It was a significant undertaking and I burned out pretty hard afterwards. I was operating under a naive "if you build it, they will come" model whereby building a modern-looking website, the community would coalesce around it and contribute to the wiki etc. But my "rallying people behind a cause" skills were insufficient. One nice contribution: at…
Of course you will never please everyone, especially in the extremely heterogeneous Common Lisp community, but I think it looks sharp.
Hey, I made this! Feel free to ask anything. I released this in 2016. It was a significant undertaking and I burned out pretty hard afterwards. I was operating under a naive "if you build it, they will come" model whereby building a modern-looking website, the community would coalesce around it and contribute to the wiki etc. But my "rallying people behind a cause" skills were insufficient. One nice contribution: at…
It's really neat that you did this :) Of course you will never please everyone, especially in the extremely heterogeneous Common Lisp community, but I think it looks sharp.
That's my personal opinion, but I think that programming language pages should have more information density. I also think that using your average "startup template" for Common Lisp is a bit weird. A good example of what I like might be the OCaml homepage https://lisp-lang.org/ , the Go homepage https://golang.org/ . The Haskell homepage has a REPL with a tutorial, which encourages you to play around with the languag…
Another very helpful resource by Fernando was his state of CL ecosystem: https://borretti.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015 It really helped have an overview of the ecosystem, pick libraries and work on consolidation. I compiled one for 2020 here: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/state-of-the-common-lisp...
(ps: yes people, you can avoid Emacs and use VSCode to have a good experience! and even Atom, Jupyter notebooks and more. See https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...)
