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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • Oh I’m absolutely not setting you up for a strawman. I just like to hear why people use such a niche language, especially for 35 years. People tend to have pretty interesting reasons, I had a great conversation with a guy who built a startup on Clojure once for the same reason.

    All of this sounds like an excellent reason to use CL, tbh. The standardization and portability is really impressive. I’ve heard that Franz are extremely solid as a vendor - so you use LispWorks as your runtime?

    I think the interesting thing about the CL package ecosystem is that it doesn’t have the ‘move fast break stuff’ mindset of many other languages such as JavaScript. Some libraries like Bordeaux are essentially just finished and require very little work.

    But on the other hand it’s really cool to see all these new attempts to modernize the language with new syntax, etc - that you can even do that is a testament to the language, I suppose.