Marcus KammerMar 22
i feel like #lisp is dying more and more. the more AI is used by people the more irrelevant becomes the programming language.
Show threadSimon BrookeMar 22

@metalisp Why?

It seems to me, on the contrary, that #Lisp is in as good health as I have seen it any time these past fifty years. #Clojure is booming, and sprouting offshoots like #Scittle and Jank; Emacs Lisp and Scheme are still widely used; and there are lots of people playing with new, experimental Lisps. Common Lisp, even, seems particularly favoured by arts programmers.

It all looks pretty vibrant.

Show threadcurtosis

@simon_brooke @metalisp In a world where most code is throwaway and you don’t care about humans understanding it, language might not matter much.

In the places where code matters and communicating precisely with humans for understanding is critical, though, the language matters very much. And the Lisps have always shone there, and may be part of the current renaissance.

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Show threadSean CorfieldMar 23
@curtosis @simon_brooke @metalisp Given the terse nature of #Lisp languages and their regularity, they're very suited to generation by AI and they use fewer tokens than other languages.