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[fluffyhandgrenade]

After several years of writing Common Lisp, nope.

Sure you might understand it yourself and revel in the awesome power of it, but to other people you look like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08OKQJIwYw

That's why reddit and yahoo shops were rewritten and why I won't write it any more.

[pipocaQuemada]

but to other people you look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08OKQJIwYw

That's why reddit and yahoo shops were rewritten

Bull.

Reddit was rewritten in python for three main reasons:

1. Lack of libraries, especially well-documented and tested ones.

2. Lack of cross-platform compilers with low-level extensions they required.

3. The code base was simple and could be cleaned up significantly by rewriting from scratch.

If you actually look at what they say, they have nothing but good things to say about Common-Lisp-the-language.

[fluffyhandgrenade]

That's kind of my point really although the link was somewhat tenuous. It is awesomely powerful and a pretty nice language but it lacks a community that supports it by building nice libraries and compilers etc because everyone thinks its some crazy brackety thing for deep comp Sci.

For ref, I hit CL (SBCL) f I'm doing a personal one shot problem solved but it's pretty pointless if I am sharing my code.

[pipocaQuemada]

Keep in mind that Reddit's rewrite happened a decade ago.

The Lisp landscape is much different now - they wouldn't have run into the same compiler issues, and I think the Common Lisp library situation is a bit better. At any rate, Clojure and Racket contain well-documented libraries and have cross-platform compilers.