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Re: "What is your favorite Lisp dialect?"
i started years ago trying to wrap my head around emacs, i couldnt understand how to know what is returned when... it was awful...eventually i checked out gigamonkeys practical common lisp, an excellent book giving an intro to CL. it was great! i loved it!
Apr 04 · 5 months ago
😺 janet-catcus · Apr 04 at 09:34:
oopsie. forgot to hold shift. anyways. CL is love.
by that time i tried to get that nice explorative feeling in gamedev and checked out arcadia, a clojure interface for unity. also really nice back then. WAAY before unity corp started the shitfest.
eventually i realized i didnt like having to wait for a CL or clojure session to init/keep one open all the time... and i swerved to thinking about implementing my own lisp as an extension to something... like unreal with graalvm maybe...
anyhow, eventually i stumbled upon janet-lang.org and fell in love
one could argue janet is not a true lisp because of the various datastructures and other reasons but that feels nitpicky... ^^'
What is your favorite Lisp dialect? — List out your favorite Lisp dialect(s) and reason(s) why you like them, but also flaw(s) with them, if there are any.
💬 Troler [mod] · 10 comments · 2023-07-23 · 1 year ago · #dialects #discussion #Lisp #programming