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I don't think you can be accused of being impractical if your lisp compiles to JavaScript with access to npm

Every Node app I've ever worked on has had a high-ranking team member who advocated for adherence to idiomatic JS, and particularly against the use of functional concepts as expressed by libraries like Sanctuary and Fluture, so as to be readable and maintainable by "ordinary" JS developers (who are apparently assumed to be incapable of learning such concepts).

Lisp -- even transpiled to JS for ingestion by Node -- is patently out of consideration on such a project.

> high-ranking team member

Is there a connection between their opinion and how they came to be high-ranking?

Is it Java Shop Politics[0] at play?

I find their opinion frustrating.

[0] http://sasamat.xen.prgmr.com/michaelochurch/wp/2012/04/13/ja...

Or worse, Typescript.

Nothing but class files, many with one or two public func^H^H^H^H methods in each file, as far as the eye can see :-(

To me, idiomatic JS is FP oriented, but I guess that’s just me. Most of my work has been on the front end, with the Java guys largely staying out of the way, rather than on node.

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