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I also forgot the very solid ClojureDart.
And it’s not tied to the jvm per say, look at clojurescript (and derivatives) or the upcoming jank.
It’s far from dead. As much as I like CL, the ecosystem is a bit of a desert compared to the jvm.
It also is not really applicable when you are on a balistic course at *very* high altitude, course correction has to happen early in these case given the reentry speed/constraints.
The future is more likely to be quantum accelerometers and quantum gyroscopes, as they have no “external dependency”.
I wouldn’t dismiss the JVM as a whole, it is a marvel of engineering and is evolving quickly nowadays (see loom, panama, leyden, etc…).
His “lab” was basically all about testing and simulating environments for the instruments. He had tons of sayings about not having room for error in his line of work. This is as close as you can get from “building bridges” and to this day I don’t think I have seen this level of attention to detail/perfection in any other profession.
His job involved electronical engineering , mechanical engineering and programming amongst other things, not to mention a deep knowledge of the physics of these environments.
Back then also the tools or source of information that were available to them were quite crude compared to what we have now.
His spare time was all about flying, pimping his ham radio gear with all kind of “home made” electronics, build antennas and messing with computers. I guess he’d qualify as a “Hacker” nowadays.
But that’s just me, and to be fair I have used emacs since the mid 90s and vscode only for half a year. The past few years emacs developement/experience also improved massively.
It’s good to have choices ultimately and they both pulled good ideas from each other.
datahike would be the closest to datomic in terms of features/implementation (support for as-of, transactor etc).
Then in terms of maturity I think the choice is between xtdb and datascript, both are very solid/maintained but they are also vastly different.