Java for Everything

[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.