22 engineers on Hacker News describe using Lisp first-hand: 8 endorse it, 2 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“a lisp was one of my first languages, so i feel like i ought to be the target audience, but it just never quite catches me.”
mixed · personal · 6gvONxR4sf7o · 2025-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“about 8-9 years ago I started getting my senior devs in workshops; after about 6 months some of them asked wtf we are doing with that c# stuff”
endorse · production · 8 yr · anonzzzies · 2024-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I never used Lisp or Clojure in production, but I learned so much just by trying it out and understanding how it works.”
endorse · personal · edem · 2023-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my days of dabbling with Lisp I found that every company that makes use of it (and even each team within a company that makes use of it) is mutually incompatible DSLs”
regret · personal · shagie · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I test pretty much every single expression interactively as soon as it's written, because it's so quick and effortless to do so.”
endorse · production · mikelevins · 2022-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think C and Lisp together are amazing. I have been using them for decades”
endorse · personal · 20 yr · eggy · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The short answer for us was the strangeness of building HTML or GUI UI's with Lisp.”
mixed · production · mimixco · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“am fond of several of them (bliss 36, lisp, various assembler)”
endorse · personal · wglb · 2018-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“LISP let me compile individual functions in a fraction of a second after writing them.”
endorse · personal · nickpsecurity · 2015-06-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I guess I'm biased by writing a lot of Lisp in my free time lately.”
endorse · personal · jlarocco · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Lisp since the early 1980s, and Lisp languages are great for some kinds of applications and research.”
endorse · production · 30 yr · mark_l_watson · 2011-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it only allowed me to do boring things, not cool things”
regret · personal · cousin_it · 2011-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For some reason my LISP and AI classes used a teletype interface.”
neutral · personal · maire · 2022-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do have code like this in production, because eval only looks up within it's environment”
neutral · production · shakna · 2016-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having learned BASIC, FORTRAN 77, Pascal, PDP-11 ASM, Lisp at school, and some dBASE at work”
neutral · personal · Roboprog · 2016-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote a Markov text generator in Lisp a few months ago”
neutral · personal · jlarocco · 2014-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even while working as a CE I was automating AutoCAD with Lisp and C# to make my design work faster.”
neutral · production · wilsonfiifi · 2014-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have an outstanding code editor and development environments for Lisp, Scheme, Python, J, F# and JavaScript.”
neutral · personal · taylodl · 2012-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have fair bit of lisp dev experience.”
neutral · personal · smanek · 2012-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I did it, I just started a fresh image and loaded all my new code (checked out from the repository) into it.”
neutral · production · ken · 2012-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Lisp languages for much of my work since the early 1980s”
neutral · production · 30 yr · mark_l_watson · 2011-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I created a Lisp-based DSL for describing and valuing financial derivative contracts.”
neutral · production · cheez · 2011-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?