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I have 2 questions:

- What is he using now? (Python?)

- Is there a LISP dialect that doesn't suffer from this problem? I can see that from time to time LISP projects start taking off just do die a year later and I'm stuck using Emacs (Lighttable comes into mind)

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> - Is there a LISP dialect that doesn't suffer from this problem?

I am not sure what problem you are referring to. Racket has been actively developed since the mid-90s.

Clojure and Common Lisp are still around and are quite active. There’s been a lot of cool stuff brewing for both languages recently

It was developer experience that precipitated this fallout, a language usually needs to be growing in user base for the developer experience to improve as people complain and tackle problems they encounter.

The old linked thread had some prominent figure saying “but just do <inconvenient thing>” in response to every issue, if the language isn’t growing, only people accustomed to the inconveniences stick around.

So, I’d say it used to be Clojure, but now I doubt there is one.

> - What is he using now? (Python?)

From the blog:

>> I’ve been writing a great deal of Python, Bash, Awk, Perl 5 for my own consumption

I saw that but it wasn't explicitly stated that's why I asked.

Incidentally these are all languages that come preinstalled out of the box on Debian. [1] So that leads me to suspect this person might be trying to develop something in extremis, with zero connection to the internet whatsoever and zero tools except what comes preinstalled on a typical Linux box.

[1]: https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/what-programming-languages...

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