Comment by 😺 janet-catcus

i started years ago trying to wrap my head around emacs, i couldnt understand how to know what is returned when... it was awful...eventually i checked out gigamonkeys practical common lisp, an excellent book giving an intro to CL. it was great! i loved it!

2024-04-04 · 2 years ago

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oopsie. forgot to hold shift. anyways. CL is love.

by that time i tried to get that nice explorative feeling in gamedev and checked out arcadia, a clojure interface for unity. also really nice back then. WAAY before unity corp started the shitfest.

eventually i realized i didnt like having to wait for a CL or clojure session to init/keep one open all the time... and i swerved to thinking about implementing my own lisp as an extension to something... like unreal with graalvm maybe...

anyhow, eventually i stumbled upon janet-lang.org and fell in love

one could argue janet is not a true lisp because of the various datastructures and other reasons but that feels nitpicky... ^^'

Original Post

What is your favorite Lisp dialect? — List out your favorite Lisp dialect(s) and reason(s) why you like them, but also flaw(s) with them, if there are any.