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a2code
·7 months ago·discuss
I did not try Clojure so I cannot comment on how well implemented the features you quote are, when compared to CL. All I can say is that CL also provides much of the same functionality with its standard, cl-async, lparallel, parenscript, while (im)mutability is a matter of preference (IMO correct decision by CL) rather than dominance. The way I see it, is that CL is superior (opinion) due to reader macros and native compilation, rather than bytecode JVM.
a2code
·7 months ago·discuss
I have two tech q about partsbox. Why Clojure? Why not CL (lack of saas related-features)?
a2code
·last year·discuss
> The most impressive thing humans can do is to think. > And the best kind of thinking, or more precisely the best proof that one has thought well, is to make good new things. > ... but making good new things is a should in the sense that this is how to live to one's full potential.

I urge you not to take these opinions as facts. Originality is admirable, but it is not "your potential", "proof of great thoughts", or "the most impressive thing you can do".

The answer to the question: What to do? is not "Make new things", but rather begins with a simple question: In what context?

The idea of dividing people into two categories: 1) those who "take care of people and the world", and those who 2) "make good new things", is harmful.
a2code
·last year·discuss
Does it support other scheme implementations? Or at least any plans to do so?
a2code
·last year·discuss
Will YC and startups be more or less agreeable on remote work? Will the new administration cause changes to remote work?
a2code
·2 years ago·discuss
In general, a compiler takes source code and generates object code or an executable. Can you elaborate on what your compiler takes as input and generates as an output?
a2code
·2 years ago·discuss
What are some other applications of WebAssembly that you find promising?
a2code
·2 years ago·discuss
> I found no evidence of someone having invented it before.

Most Lisp/Scheme implementations offer tracing. Amazingly, the SICP book even shows tracing as a means of analyzing whether a recursive function is tail-recursive.

What I'm curious about is the Lisp history of tracing. Does anyone know which implementations were the first to provide tracing functionality?