I was loosing all my clients. I did not care, Common Lisp was awesome
Lisp’s supposed to help you ship faster, but all too often seduces you into the platonic realm. Amazing how this guy ripped himself out of it to fully embrace the sinful flesh of “reality” although I prefer arcane cultism.
I have a killer app but no-one will run it because it’s in Common Lisp
No one will run his binaries? I’ve never had this problem.
no, he’s talking about a CL library, cl-facts, an in-memory DB of his own that he never talked about, and deleted from GitHub for a while: no surprise nobody knew about it. It’s not all to write a software. You have packaging and documentation and public relations. And DB is a crowded field and a core choice for any app, so a hard sell.
If the garbage collector was the limiting factor for the success of applications written in Common Lisp then Go would also not be successful. But we know Go has been successful both for servers and CLI applications.
The author is developing a language, a REPL, an interpreter and a compiler that better suits its needs, this is interesting.
On the long term the “success” of programming languages seem to depend a lot on network effects / strong ecosytem since it’s so hard to share algorithms between different language as soon as they are not written for the platform/VMs.
Lisp’s supposed to help you ship faster, but all too often seduces you into the platonic realm. Amazing how this guy ripped himself out of it to fully embrace the sinful flesh of “reality” although I prefer arcane cultism.
No one will run his binaries? I’ve never had this problem.
no, he’s talking about a CL library, cl-facts, an in-memory DB of his own that he never talked about, and deleted from GitHub for a while: no surprise nobody knew about it. It’s not all to write a software. You have packaging and documentation and public relations. And DB is a crowded field and a core choice for any app, so a hard sell.
I also tried it once and found it slow (while this one https://github.com/kraison/vivace-graph-v3/ IS fast)
If the garbage collector was the limiting factor for the success of applications written in Common Lisp then Go would also not be successful. But we know Go has been successful both for servers and CLI applications.
The author is developing a language, a REPL, an interpreter and a compiler that better suits its needs, this is interesting.
On the long term the “success” of programming languages seem to depend a lot on network effects / strong ecosytem since it’s so hard to share algorithms between different language as soon as they are not written for the platform/VMs.
Then Java would not be used in almost all banks, funds and insurance companies.
I didn’t see this linked anywhere on the page, just a Discord link. This appears to be the k3c project site https://kc3-lang.org/
I’m left asking the question, why? Why should I try it? What advantages does it have over…. SQLite to pick a random other database.