It can be a little esoteric if you don’t have experience with the paradigms, but I’ve never used a language that felt more free.
On SBCL you have typing support, CLOS provides an OO interface, and it lends itself well to functional style programming (despite not having a type system as powerful as say Haskell). Additionally, the ecosystem is quite stable and mature, any library of functionality you might need is likely available.
functional dev environments have been the hardest part of learning cl for me. i don’t really want to use emacs, but it’s the wild west for other editors.
setting up emacs wasnt hard per se, but emacs is just so much. i spent more time troubleshooting how to use emacs and fix issues with it than learning the language, which just makes it all a little lame.
I’ll agree the emacs on ramp is widely regarded as a barrier to entry on CL. I’ve heard good things about the Alive plug-in for vs code though. Also stuff like emacs4cl and portacle in theory make it easier, but I don’t disagree.
With that said, using an editor built on a lisp to work on lisp as its advantages if you can get over that initial hurdle.
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It can be a little esoteric if you don’t have experience with the paradigms, but I’ve never used a language that felt more free.
On SBCL you have typing support, CLOS provides an OO interface, and it lends itself well to functional style programming (despite not having a type system as powerful as say Haskell). Additionally, the ecosystem is quite stable and mature, any library of functionality you might need is likely available.
functional dev environments have been the hardest part of learning cl for me. i don’t really want to use emacs, but it’s the wild west for other editors.
setting up emacs wasnt hard per se, but emacs is just so much. i spent more time troubleshooting how to use emacs and fix issues with it than learning the language, which just makes it all a little lame.
I’ll agree the emacs on ramp is widely regarded as a barrier to entry on CL. I’ve heard good things about the Alive plug-in for vs code though. Also stuff like emacs4cl and portacle in theory make it easier, but I don’t disagree.
With that said, using an editor built on a lisp to work on lisp as its advantages if you can get over that initial hurdle.