I just finished @paulg's essay "Beating the Averages". Great read.
Do successful startups use Lisp (or its variants) today? Or is there another equivalent modern language that, despite having few users, is extraordinarily effective?
Yes, there's a Lisp dialect called Clojure that's very popular now. Another one called Racket is also quite popular.
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Is using a slightly different syntactic form to accomplish tail call elimination really reason to “caution” use of the language?
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Aside from language selection, I'd think the similar concept today is startups not only adopting cloud, serverless, and high velocity CI/CD but making it a core competency.
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Jane Street once said in an interview that an unexpected benefit of using an obscure language (OCaml) as their primary development language was that only excellent, deeply intellectually curious programmers applied to work with them. I wonder if the Lisp effect is the same?
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What do they use it for? Backend stuff? Frontend stuff? Both? Other things?
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Both, in Clojure at least
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I wrote the engine making maps behind https://greaterskies.com in Common Lisp after reading that article and then being blown away by
@paulg ‘s On Lisp. It is still our main competitive advantage.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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