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		pphysch on Oct 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in t... > Lisp will scale poorly because every language does I guarantee you that a highly opinionated language like Go scales horizontally better* than a totally unopinionated language like Common Lisp. It's literally why Google spent a bunch of resources developing it. It's also why Lispers tend to despise Golang, or deride it as a simple language for average developers. *Requires fewer resources to get a new hire up and running on prod code

p_l on Oct 23, 2021 [–]

Ehhh, not all of us despise Go.

Unlike its creators, who were quite blunt in saying it's simple language for middling devs.

(Other than the part where it's essentially new version of C from alternative world)

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