Why Lisp?
I see a lot of posts justifying why Lisp is nice and should be used. These are good. I agree with them. But I would also like to see posts about actual projects written in Lisp.<p>Compare with Rust and Go. Rust and Go devs write articles evangelizing Rust but that&#x27;s not all we see. We also see posts about so many useful Rust and Go projects too.<p>How can we see a similar trend for Lisp? And no, it cannot be writing a Lisp in a Lisp or writing a Lisp in your favorite language or writing your favorite language in a Lisp. I am looking for useful projects that do something useful for users who can&#x27;t give a damn what language the project is written in.<p>I searched <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;lisp</a> but a vast majority of the projects there are not software used by actual users in the wild. Most of them are projects that teach how to make a lisp or documentation about lisp. There are some useful software like browser, editor, etc. in there but they are few and far between.<p>I know Reddit was written in Lisp but it isn&#x27;t anymore. So that&#x27;s a bummer.<p>Does Roomba still run on Lisp? I can&#x27;t find out with some quick searches.<p>HN is written in a dialect of Lisp so that is one example. Can we have more such examples? Even better would be open source examples where any college student can contribute?