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0 pointsjeremiep9y ago0 comments

That's completely false in the context of a Lisp.

I boot the JVM once and iterate endlessly in the same process. Same for ClojureScript in the browser or node.js. Lisp is by far the most interactive language there is with the fastest iteration times (AFAIK).

1.5 seconds would be huge if you had to constantly restart your application like you do everywhere outside Lisp. Iterating in Clojure is literally instant.

I wrote applications in dozens of languages, and none come remotely close to Clojure's iteration speed or joy of use.

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bandrami9y ago

Lisp is by far the most interactive language there is with the fastest iteration times (AFAIK).

That's Forth. Lisp comes next.

icebraining9y ago

if you had to constantly restart your application like you do everywhere outside Lisp.

This was probably true in the 80s, but hasn't been in a while. Many languages have this, either built-in or as a tool. In the case of the JVM, there's spring-loaded, which works in Java, Groovy, etc.

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