The author discusses their experience with programming languages, specifically Objective-C, Swift, and Common Lisp. They express frustration with Swift’s complexity and praise Common Lisp for its simplicity and powerful abstraction tools. The author highlights the benefits of easily inspectable running code in Common Lisp compared to other languages requiring compiling and setting breakpoints. They criticize the lack of creativity in programming with Go and express concern over ever-changing language specifications in other languages like C++. The author finds comfort and superpowers in using Common Lisp, which remains unchanged and reliable. They plan to use Common Lisp for their next project.
https://ds9soft.com/blog/2024/06/the-liberating-experience-of-common-lisp/