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Favourite time of the year! I am, however, continually surprised that SLY doesn’t have more mindshare. Similarly jonathan. I guess cl-json and SLIME are _good
by smcn 2y ago
Favourite time of the year!
I am, however, continually surprised that SLY doesn’t have more mindshare. Similarly jonathan. I guess cl-json and SLIME are _good enough_ for most people.
…or maybe I need to revisit them?
- massysett 2y agoSly is a derivative of Slime. I shy away from derivatives unless I understand exactly why the derivative is better than the original. In my view, derivatives often have poor documentation: they just copy the original docs, and I can’t tell when to do things the original way versus a special derivative way. Thus I used Debian and not Ubuntu, Vim and not Neovim, Emacs and not Spacemacs (though that’s not exactly a derivative), etc. I do use SBCL rather than CMUCL, as I do understand why SBCL is better for me: CMUCL won’t run on my platform. I look at the Sly page and I have no idea why I would want any of the stuff it does, so I stick with Slime.
- diogenesoft 2y agoMaybe TRY USING it and then you might understand. This mindset is the same reason people rarely try lisp because it is quite difficult to see somethings without actually using them.
- massysett 2y agoI don’t have time to try everything. Sly may well be excellent. Plenty of folks might not try Lisp because they’re happy with the tools they have. And that’s ok.
- tmtvl 2y agoEh, I can see a use for stickers, they seem more convenient to work with than (break).
- reikonomusha 2y agoZulu-Inuoe's jzon blew everything else out of the water imho. It's a superlative example of a robust and comprehensive library to do a single job very well.
- smcn 2y agoNew to me! Will give it a bash.
- BoingBoomTschak 2y agoThe "cannot encode a dotted pair" issue still being open is the only thing worrying me, personally.