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Re: "What is your favorite Lisp dialect?"
Scheme for intro to "advanced CS" with SICP, Common Lisp with PAIP for hardcore and totally crazy stuff to implement in C/C++ and just weeks in CL. But Scheme has lots of fun too with Guile/Guix.
2023-10-09 · 11 months ago
🖥️ zetamacs · 2023-12-14 at 20:22:
Commenting months after the fact, I realize.
Common Lisp is what does it for me. Yes, it's effectively Howl's Moving Castle - a little bit of everything, so as to become anything. But that makes it obscure, historically interesting, and above all... charming? And in the end, there is nothing I cannot do in it, all the while feeling like a real wizard.
Scheme (Guile, really) also occupies a special place because of Guix and GuixSD. However, I find CL far more natural and comfortable for most things. IMO Guile has moved past the minimal elegance of Scheme, only to fall short of the depth and power of CL. The middle ground is useful, but not always nice.
😺 janet-catcus · Apr 04 at 09:28:
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!
😺 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