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		derefr on Nov 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU Guile site redesign > Basically, I think that Lisp and Scheme have a reputation for being unapproachable. I don't think Lisp itself has that problem any more. Everyone knows that Clojure exists and is an approachable Lisp. The question has now become, "why should I pay attention to any Lisp that's not Clojure?"

pjmlp on Nov 6, 2015 [–]

From the point of view of commercial ones:

- Compilation to native code AOT

- Tooling

- Performance (CL has value types and way better ways to go downlevel, if needed)

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