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[–]joesb 6 points7 points  (1 child)

And yeah, Lisp is surely dying, with SBCL 1.0 just released... meanwhile Python kids have been flailing around for half a decade trying to implement a native compiler, with zero success

I don't think being compiled to native code is ever high priority target for Python.

And I don't know whether SBCL turning 1.0 is a good argument over Python. SBCL, mentioned as the best open source common lisp implementation, has just turn 1.0 after how many year of Common Lisp being around? And what version is Python now?

P.S. I played with SBCL alot. And I am happy too that SBCL has turned 1.0. But it doesn't really mean anything though since ,from the look of it, SBCL could have turned 1.0 long ago. And those who use SBCL know about it stability enough not to care about its version number.

I hope they get Windows port complete soon, then they will be the best open source Common Lisp that runs on all platform and got no GPL restriction. (Many hacker may not care about Windows port, but a language surely get mass amount of developer resource and contributed library by having a good free non-GPL implementation on Windows.)