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      2 title = '1 month review of Lisp'
      3 date = 2025-12-24T16:08:17+01:00
      4 draft = false
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      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*.