What makes Lisp difficult to read?(paultm.nl)

20 points by ibobev 28 days ago | 24 comments

Blog post exploring why Lisp's parenthesis-heavy syntax is perceived as hard to read and what that implies for designing syntax in new languages.

Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language (2024)(blog.snork.dev)

31 points by smoothdeveloper 1 year ago | 51 comments

What will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future?(vishnumenon.com)

176 points by vishnumenon 3 years ago | 187 comments

Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?(aphyr.com)

415 points by manicennui 2 years ago | 210 comments

Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr) blog post explaining why the Jepsen distributed-systems testing tool is written in Clojure, citing concurrency support and JVM interop.

Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition(t3x.org)

354 points by nils-m-holm 1 year ago | 98 comments

Book page for Nils M Holm's "Lisp from Nothing", covering minimal self-interpreting Lisp implementations from a metacircular evaluator to a compiler emitting C.

Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming language?(daninus14.github.io)

65 points by kryptiskt 2 years ago | 143 comments