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0 pointskamaal6y ago0 comments

Not to be rude, but apart from Clojure, other Lisps are non-existent in production compared to the software world at large.

One could even consider Scheme as more widely used than CL.

The biggest production use case for Lisp today is to learn Lisp.

The biggest use case for Scheme, CL, or Racket is to use to learn Lisp. Racket that way was quite successful.

With all this going on now. Scheme is the only serious Lisp for learning purposes. What new in sights will Rhombus provide here? The biggest use case for trying out scheme was while working through books like SICP.

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lispm6y ago

> Clojure, other Lisps are non-existent in production compared to the software world at large

Clojure is also non-existent in production to the software world at large.

The latest Clojure survey had roughly 2500 people giving feedback. That's a drop in the ocean of many millions of Java, C, C++, C#, Python and Javascript programmers. Rough estimates say that there are >7 million Java programmers world-wide.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-python-d...

The number of Clojure programmers is probably less than 1/1000ths of that.

pjmlp6y ago

Except that they are, looking for a job in Porto/Lisbon? Syscog is always looking for good Common Lisp coders.

The fact that CL is used enough to keep two commercial vendors in business, shows how relevant it still is across some industries, even if doesn't do newspaper headlines.

More so than ever Scheme ever was.

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