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I saved up Common Lisp resources for a few years and in 2022 I finally decided to sit down and learn it. It was entirely worth it, so I recommend you sit down to learn Rust one weekend. In fact, do it next weekend. Getting started on anything is always better done sooner than later.

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joaquincabezas, don't listen to this person. It's a trap. In February I found myself in AirBnB alone with nothing to do, because my wife had to stay back home for an extra week and I waited for her to join me. AirBnB had a decent work desk, decent(-ish) monitor and barely ok keyboard so I decided to learn Rust. Now it's January, I'm at 3000+ LoC of Rust and about 4000 in Dart/Flutter and trying to make the project to ShowHN. Weekend project, my ass. Rust is highly addictive, you've been warned. I tried to get sober, left this project for months on end, but always relapsed.

fn main() { println!("Too late I guess!"); }

> Getting started on anything is always better done sooner than later.

So true. It’s never too late, you’re never too old, there’s never something else you need to learn first, just do it.

Nice. I'm doing exactly that with CL, one of my new year's resolutions. Would you mind to share your resources?

Besides the obvious Big 4 (Gentle Intro, PAIP, On Lisp, and Cookbook) I am also quite fond of Lisp in Small Pieces. Aside from those I'd also recommend grabbing the GCL source and building the Info manual so you can browse it in Emacs, it contains a fairly complete copy of the HyperSpec (I know it's available online, but I don't like visiting websites that haven't updated to HTTPS yet).

Also check out CLiki (the Common Lisp wiki, https://www.cliki.net/), it's very helpful in finding useful libraries, like Alexandria, defstar, trivia, lparallel, and so on.

Didn't know half of those. Thank you!

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