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mkukiro
9 points
Following
2
Stacks
0
Favorites
16
Follows
3
One-Liners
74
Votes
0
Reviews
0
Comments
57
Macros
76
Code is data
81
Interactive repl
61
Lazy data structures
19
Fast-growing community
61
Open source
31
Built-in concurrency
30
Built-in parallelism
8
Flexible
30
Composable
20
Generics
22
High-performance
23
Simplistic
8
Monads
24
Referentially transparent
20
Excellent collections
49
Functional
15
Multiple host languages
15
Intellectual satisfaction
12
If it compiles, it's correct
9
It creates Reusable code
9
Web friendly
15
Type inference
10
Addictive
15
Practical Lisp
4
One of the most powerful languages *(see blub paradox)*
22
Immutable by default
15
Simple (not easy!)
8
Minimalist
5
Great type system
3
Pattern matching and completeness checking
1
Orthogonality
9
Rapid development
10
Because it's really fun to use
5
Regained interest in programming
6
Programmable programming language
3
Highly expressive, type-safe, fast development time
4
Compiles to JavaScript
11
Cryptic stacktraces
5
Libraries have poor documentation
9
Too much distraction in language extensions
3
Great maintainability of the code
4
Purely-functional Programming
3
Share a lot of code with clojurescript/use on frontend
3
Fun
1
Predictable
3
Reliable
3
Standard did not evolve since 1994
2
Small library ecosystem
2
Cross platform GUI
2
Macro Stepper
2
Built-in concurrency
2
Built-in parallelism
2
Functional Programming
2
Open source
2
Language-oriented programming
2
FFI
2
Great libraries
2
Beautiful code
2
Rapid development
2
Fast
2
Gradual typing
2
Nanopass compiler
3
Hygienic macros
2
No hygienic macros
2
Extensible
3
Tonns of abandonware
3
Slow application startup
5
Need to wrap basically every java lib
2
Alternate backends
2
The best type system
1
Racketscript
1
Clojurescript
1
Monads are hard to understand
