Why not write one myself? Drained. Lisp is near and dear to my heart, but midnight when I have to do our morning time routine with our 7mo at 6am isn’t the time to wax poetic.
The most worrisome thing is actually the most ironic: no one is posting any hate comments either. Back a decade ago, you’d get into long battles about whether it was a good or bad idea to choose any Lisp, or at least some jeers from the sidelines. But that, counterintuitively, was one of Lisp’s strengths. When I was younger, that kind of thing originally sparked my curiosity: if most people were jeering, and most people weren’t too smart, then could there be something to this whole Lisp trend (even if it seemed like more of a university project than a trend)? And it turns out there was.
Loved or hated, you’re noticed. The pit of indifference is a bad place for an ecosystem to be. It’s long past time someone write about it in… well, in a way that can only be described as pg style. He had a knack for making young devs hungry for more. https://paulgraham.com/avg.html
The essays still hold up. They’re as true today as they were then. But no one will believe them without an example. I wouldn’t have believed it if pg hadn’t released Arc, and sometimes it feels like I’m the only one in the world that actually uses it to solve problems that I personally have.
But the nice thing about Lisp is that it’s always there, waiting to be discovered. It’s arguably one of the few types of programming ecosystems that can be discovered rather than designed. It’s precisely why there are so many choices. And it also doesn’t matter that nobody else uses it, just that you like it, that it solves your problems, and you find it endlessly fascinating. Hopefully our generation won’t be the last, at least for a long while.