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Some niche programming communities (Haskell, OCaml) suffer from a touch of elitism Common Lisp's challenge is that half its community only speaks Japanese- I just had the most beautiful experience of my life. I’m seated next to a VERY intense vibecoder on the plane. I’m hungover, sore from my marathon, and I can’t even sit normally. So angry. I’m considering telling this guy when we get off the plane that he needs to ditch his
- tech stack but we are in 2025 common lisp emacs linux (guix/nix)tech stack but we are in 2013 wordpress php jquery ajax mysql apache phpmyadmin cpanel whm sublime text filezilla ftp
- lisp > zig
- > lisp is not good > my thing *will* be better > it *will* have "parsers" that can transform code trivially & parse enclosed stuff with custom precedence > it *will* be more powerful
Replying to @4ster_light @addmeoncomputer and @liminallogsdon't listen to her she actually thinks lisp is good its not, people just think it is because no other language gives them a macro or comptime eval system as good, cab will have "parsers" that can transform cab code trivially & parse enclosed stuff with custom precedence, and - congrats, you've just discovered org mode in emacsI thought about Markdown links for weeks now... and I think I cracked the code. - cmd + k to make a link (cmd + p for command palette) - tab once to edit the link - tab again to visit the link - esc to go back to editing Would you use it?
00:00 - guys, writing a stripe sdk in lisp is not glamorous work i'm only doing it because nobody else is
- learning to code means bending the computer to your will tools may evolve, but that essence remains constant i use emacs btw
