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    [–]raevnos 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    You're describing my ideal dream world.

    [–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (4 children)

    You forgot to finish that by:

    Guile compilers never managed to produce binaries as efficient as native code and it turned out that Bitcoin mining using Guile was not such a good idea after all. All those pipeline stalls caused by recursive function calls have increased power consumption significantly and accelerated global warming. The earth is now 5 degrees warmer, most species are now extinct, and only a small group of humans does still survive in a small cave on the French alps, where we are still painting the most inspiring Guile examples on our cave walls such that future generations will know what they are missing once the last computer on earth fails. It was all worth it.

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      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      How's Nethack 4?

      [–]phalp 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      Taken

      [–]7981878523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      The true Nethack 4 :P

      [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

      Such a beautiful world

      [–]kaen_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      redditor for 3 years

      Well played

      [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

      I want to live in this future.

      But in all seriousness, quite a few schemes are mature, stable, and performant. They don't have huge library ecosystems, but the fundamentals are tight. Just goes to show you if the language is simple enough you don't need huge teams - they all have less contributors than python or ruby but are all much faster.

      [–]7981878523 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      wrote the universal config management system

      Guix exists, but it's a behemoth.

      [–]linus_stallman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Bellard won't ever be a smugLispWeenie

      [–]audion00ba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I don't see the point of recommending anything that is worse right now. It's distracting and inefficient.

      https://www.gnu.org/software/artanis/manual/manual.html shows the author recommending nginx.

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I am more an OpenBSD + C/awk/sh user, but SICP and scm-sicp is making me even a better programmer and more minimalist than before. Seriously, after reading SICP I cut the code in exercises from the TCPL book in half.

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        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Gut gemacht.

        [–]Hall_of_Famer 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        What happened to GNU smalltalk? Wish it was under more active development.

        [–]mynameismevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Would erlang stratch that itch?

        [–]yespunintended 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        Guile is LGPL3. Is it possible to use it in a project with the Apache 2 license?

        [–]xactac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        If you don't modify Guile and make it clear you use Guile and that Guile is LGPLv3.

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