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Honestly I’ve done enough scheme to understand that I wouldn’t touch anything related with scheme in a million years. People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on.

The nix language is pretty nice on the other hand. The only thing I’m missing is a language server protocol thing so I can go to definition

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> People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on.

Ironically, this has been posted on a popular site written in a dialect of scheme:

http://arclanguage.org/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

how is this ironic? HN was written by one person, and nobody needs to care what language they used to make it work.

Where is the irony? HN does not expose scheme to the user.

Don't think the parent was saying that it's impossible to write a good program in scheme/lisp, more that scheme as user interface for a software system is a hard sell... which seems anecdotally true.

rnix-lsp is a language server for Nix that provides go to definition. I'm using it with the "Nix IDE" extension in VS Code. It doesn't handle imports though afaict, so it's only useful for local definitions.

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