Ask HN: How many of you are actually using Lisp in your startup/projects?

11 points·manish··7 comments

I saw lot of enthusiasm for lisp related stuff. Also I am very much influenced by PG's essays. So was curious about how many of us use lisp for our startup and what tools do you use for development.

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I use Scheme (Bigloo, PLT/mzscheme) all the time, even if the project isn't in Scheme itself. If I hit a point where I know I don't fully understand the problem, I'll usually break out my Scheme stuff play around until I have a better grasp, and then redo it in whatever language/platform the project is in (right now, usually JavaScript.)

I usually use an emacs cvs snapshot, with paredit and geiser http://git.hacks-galore.org/gitweb/jao?p=geiser.git;a=summar...

I'm using Clojure for both my PhD thesis project as well as a musical live coding system. Coding in Vim with vimclojure. Yeah! It's a blast, and the Clojure community feels like the olden days of the Ruby community, but smarter.

Using SBCL, emacs. No web stuff here, save for a few internal reports. It is working very nicely. (ex c++, C, Python, Bliss, asm programmer)

Same here, SBCL + slime for no-web stuff, and it's great. Never tried lisp for the web; for that I find perl + catalyst a very good solution.

Common Lisp and Parenscript.

I do. Common Lisp stack.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...

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