As a professional user of lisp that works with it on a team and delivers products, I agree with the sentiment. Nobody I’ve had the pleasure of working with to on-board has had issues given about two weeks, but that’s in a different environment than a curious somebody who is just poking around from the internet.
The effort to get an editor going and to open a file and load a package (“system” in CL) is a lot. Of course, I’ll die on a hill claiming that those things are a constant overhead and aren’t even detectable when you wield lisp’s power.
Nothing inherently stops lisp from becoming simpler to start with and use, but most everybody who knows lisp has become not only competent with the current tooling, they’re happy with it. I’m happy too: I love using Emacs and SLIME. I love it better than VSCode, PyCharm, etc. I’m faster and more productive.
I wonder why other professions aren’t like programming. Adobe Premier isn’t exactly easy to use, yet professionals aren’t apparently clamoring for an iMovie equivalent.
The effort to get an editor going and to open a file and load a package (“system” in CL) is a lot. Of course, I’ll die on a hill claiming that those things are a constant overhead and aren’t even detectable when you wield lisp’s power.
Nothing inherently stops lisp from becoming simpler to start with and use, but most everybody who knows lisp has become not only competent with the current tooling, they’re happy with it. I’m happy too: I love using Emacs and SLIME. I love it better than VSCode, PyCharm, etc. I’m faster and more productive.
I wonder why other professions aren’t like programming. Adobe Premier isn’t exactly easy to use, yet professionals aren’t apparently clamoring for an iMovie equivalent.