janet2.md (759B)
1 +++ 2 title = '1 month review of Lisp' 3 date = 2025-12-24T16:08:17+01:00 4 draft = false 5 +++ 6 Somehow, in the span of a single month, 7 I already got tired of *most* Lisp variants. 8 But among all the trash (and not so trash), 9 I managed to find one that would fit my needs: 10 a *standalone*, *simple*, *portable* language. 11 12 Here's a summary of my experiences: 13 Common Lisp is bloat, 14 Clojure is perfect (except for the JVM), 15 Scheme is too focused on embedding and small programs 16 and Fennel is *almost* perfect, but it depends on Lua. 17 At the end of the day, 18 Janet takes the good of Clojure and Fennel 19 and focuses on creating minimal *yet functional* programs. 20 21 This 2026 I'm planning on staying almost-exclusively in Janet 22 *given that I have a tendency of switching tools*.