Running Lisp in Production (2015)

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by tosh • 8 years ago

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tuananh2• 8 years ago

how hard is it to hire a Lisp developer?

I ask because it would be near impossible to hire on in my location (Southeast Asia).

shakna6• 8 years ago

How hard is to hire a Python developer?

That's how I handled it. Scheme's syntax is simple enough to teach in 10 minutes, and the syntax is close enough to Python it doesn't take much to get people up and running.

I've used Scheme in production a few times now. A group of decent programmers (with experience in Python or Lua or Ruby) under one senior programmer with Scheme experience is usually more than enough.

dozzie• 8 years ago

And that's how one should hire people for less popular languages (for the popular ones too, probably).

bigjimslade• 8 years ago

Might I be nosy and ask what Scheme environment(s) you used in these production deployments? Thank you.

kristianp2• 8 years ago

They also use Clojure (2017): https://tech.grammarly.com/blog/building-etl-pipelines-with-...

Running Lisp in Production (2015)

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