> there are so many lisps out there, i wonder when one will click
I wonder if one ever will. Just as Tarver's Bipolar Lisp Programmer[1] finds it so fun and easy to reimplement things in Lisp rather than get work done with existing libraries, it's more fun, and easier, to reinvent Lispy languages than to get work done in an existing Lisp.
It was more fun to design & implement Clojure than it was to improve ABCL[2] and get work done; it was more fun to write racket than to get work done in Common Lisp; it was more fun to reimplement swathes of Common Lisp in Scheme than to just get work done in an existing CL implementation; it was more fun to build arc than it was to just get work done.
Rather than building small integration layers over necessary technology and then getting work done with it, we continually reinvent the entire stack because it's so easy and fun to do that in a Lispy language.
I wonder if one ever will. Just as Tarver's Bipolar Lisp Programmer[1] finds it so fun and easy to reimplement things in Lisp rather than get work done with existing libraries, it's more fun, and easier, to reinvent Lispy languages than to get work done in an existing Lisp.
It was more fun to design & implement Clojure than it was to improve ABCL[2] and get work done; it was more fun to write racket than to get work done in Common Lisp; it was more fun to reimplement swathes of Common Lisp in Scheme than to just get work done in an existing CL implementation; it was more fun to build arc than it was to just get work done.
Rather than building small integration layers over necessary technology and then getting work done with it, we continually reinvent the entire stack because it's so easy and fun to do that in a Lispy language.
[1] http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
[2] https://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/