Not my experience. I’ve played around with Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme, Chicken, even wrote my own Lisp in C++. I’ve really wanted to like it, but it never stuck.
Also, the whole cult-like attitude from a number of people in the Lisp community was a big turn-off. All that “if you don’t get Lisp, you’re not smart enough, haven’t got enough experience, or just haven’t tried hard enough” BS gets pretty tiresome. Lisp is really simple. There isn’t much to “get”. Haskell/LEAN was much harder for me to “get” than Lisp. And LEAN absolutely blew my mind. Lisp didn’t.
I use a home grown multi-threaded unzip library in production at work built on top of zlib. Using 8 threads a typical unzip went from 30 secs to roughly 3 secs.
Interesting that the tech ban has resulted in US companies slowly but steadily loosing the worlds largest market for computer hardware. I wonder what will happen when China has saturated its home market and starts out-competing US companies internationally.
If they're fixing 10x as many PRs per month, I'm surprised they haven't run out of PRs to fix!
With AI, I've gone from having a long backlog of PRs on my TODO list to basically none after just a few months. Now I'm working on other projects until new PRs pop up.
I'm also surprised it takes hours to fix these PRs. In my experience, Claude Code can usually fix a PR in under 10 minutes.
Not my experience at all. I have added multi-threading to very large C++ applications safely. One of them has been used in production for 5+ years without a single bug. The trick is to do it very carefully and use automatic tools (Valgrind etc.) to verify the code.
And they’re 100% right about the vast majority of people.
All it takes to understand this is a little knowledge of history and psychology.
Progress has always been driven by a tiny minority who refuse to be amoral sheep. Without them, we’d still be living in caves, bashing each other over the head with rocks.
Also, the whole cult-like attitude from a number of people in the Lisp community was a big turn-off. All that “if you don’t get Lisp, you’re not smart enough, haven’t got enough experience, or just haven’t tried hard enough” BS gets pretty tiresome. Lisp is really simple. There isn’t much to “get”. Haskell/LEAN was much harder for me to “get” than Lisp. And LEAN absolutely blew my mind. Lisp didn’t.
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