I still Lisp (and you should too)

• patchy

  1 167 8.2 Python

  :anchor: Patch the inner source of python functions at runtime.

One great upside of s-expressions for me is that you can do some cool things like 'find and replace' for whole subexpressions (for monkey patching third party code, for example). I use `el-patch` [0] in my emacs config and `advice-patch` for surgically changing the default behaviors of some org-mode functions to compile my blog [1].

That said a similar sort of thing is possible, for example, in python with `patchy` [2], and perhaps many other languages? But I guess it's not as organic as in lisps, e.g. `advice-patch` implementation is less than 100 LOC, whereas in case of python you have to rely on existing heavy lifting done by `ast` module.

As of simple syntax, it really gets in the way sometimes, e.g. I'm always annoyed by constant quoting in Elisp because the same type of brackets (only `()`) is used. In comparison, in Clojure it's much more readable with (), [], {} (and more).

> Lisp is not an interpreted language. It is not slow

A bit of nitpicking, but... which Lisp? :) For example,

> all implementations come with lots and lots of levers to tweak performance for most programs. In some cases the programs might need assistance from faster languages like C and C++ because they are closer to the hardware, but with faster hardware, even that difference is becoming irrelevant.

Well, this is true of most languages.

[0] https://github.com/raxod502/el-patch#el-patch

[1] https://github.com/karlicoss/beepb00p/blob/a4fd7cb95e1705412...

[2] https://github.com/adamchainz/patchy#patchy

• awesome-cl

  63 2,450 8.7 Makefile

  A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.

Everybody says Lisp is dynamic. OK but it's not Python. Don't forget that CL, and in particular the SBCL implementation, does pretty good compile-time type checking. Nice to note is that we get the warnings instantly because during development we can compile the function we are working on with a keystroke. Sure it is not a Hindley-Mindler type system (there's one in development: https://github.com/stylewarning/coalton/) but it is "good enough".

BTW, Atom and VSCode have pretty good plugins this day (https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...) and CL might have more libraries than you think (https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl). A lot is going one.

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• closh

  5 1,603 0.0 Clojure

  Bash-like shell based on Clojure

Maybe have a look at Closh [1], a clojure based shell

[1] https://github.com/dundalek/closh

• malli

  33 1,415 9.3 Clojure

  High-performance data-driven data specification library for Clojure/Script.

  

Clojure gives you tools like spec https://clojure.org/guides/spec or Mali https://github.com/metosin/malli for schemas on data. Beats static typing IMHO.

• awesome-lisp-companies

  51 576 6.8

  Awesome Lisp Companies

Still, for some example companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies

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