Dude, you’re totally right. Common Lisp is the Bagger 288 of programming. It's this absolute unit of a machine, designed to literally eat mountains. And when the first mine shut down, it didn’t retire or rust away. They drove it across Germany at 2 miles an hour, moving villages and flattening everything in its path. People came out just to watch it roll by like it was some kind of steel god. Eventually it got a new job at another mine, still doing work nothing else could touch.
That’s Lisp. It was made for brain-level problems before AI was cool. It didn’t disappear, it just kept doing its thing while the rest of the world stacked layer after layer of frameworks and hype. It’s not trendy. It’s not dead. It’s just too powerful for most people to even know what to do with. It won’t write your todo app, but if you’re trying to build something wild that actually thinks a little, Lisp is still sitting there, waiting.
Dude, you’re totally right. Common Lisp is the Bagger 288 of programming. It's this absolute unit of a machine, designed to literally eat mountains. And when the first mine shut down, it didn’t retire or rust away. They drove it across Germany at 2 miles an hour, moving villages and flattening everything in its path. People came out just to watch it roll by like it was some kind of steel god. Eventually it got a new job at another mine, still doing work nothing else could touch.
That’s Lisp. It was made for brain-level problems before AI was cool. It didn’t disappear, it just kept doing its thing while the rest of the world stacked layer after layer of frameworks and hype. It’s not trendy. It’s not dead. It’s just too powerful for most people to even know what to do with. It won’t write your todo app, but if you’re trying to build something wild that actually thinks a little, Lisp is still sitting there, waiting.