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atcol 6 hours ago

Which Lisp, out of interest?

iLemming 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Does it really matter? There's a point in every Lisper's life, a threshold after which the question becomes immaterial - you'd stop thinking about intricacies of whatever Lisp and focus on the platform specifics instead. Any given day I might program in three-four different Lisp dialects, e.g. Clojure/Clourescript, Fennel, Elisp, Janet, etc. and it practically feels like I'm using the same PL. While switching between TS and JS (same family) never feels even close - there's always some mental burden.

andsoitis 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Does it really matter?

not philosophically, but certainly practically. To double down, if all lisps are roughly equivalent from a language POV, then you'd want to pick the one or two that will give you the most practical advantage (libraries, documentation, dev environment, etc.)

arikrahman 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even the Lisps have Lisps. Like Clojure with ClojureScript, CLR, ClojureDart, Jank... etc.