<story><title>Why Lisp?</title><url>https://github.com/naver/lispe/wiki/6.16-Why-Lisp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iLoveOncall</author><text>&amp;gt; There is this list &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have so few that you can maintain a list, it kinda proves OP&amp;#x27;s point.&lt;p&gt;Also as an addendum to his point, what about projects being written in the last decade or two?&lt;p&gt;Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976...</text></item><item><author>Davidbrcz</author><text>Emacs is the prime example of a lisp project&lt;p&gt;HN itself is (was ?) Written in lisp if I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken&lt;p&gt;There is this list
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Racket&amp;#x2F;scheme are lisp, you&amp;#x27;ll have to include them as well.</text></item><item><author>ctrlmeta</author><text>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.&lt;p&gt;Compare with Rust and Go. Rust and Go devs write articles evangelizing Rust but that&amp;#x27;s not all we see. We also see posts about so many useful Rust and Go projects too.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;t give a damn what language the project is written in.&lt;p&gt;I searched &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;lisp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;lisp&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;p&gt;I know Reddit was written in Lisp but it isn&amp;#x27;t anymore. So that&amp;#x27;s a bummer.&lt;p&gt;Does Roomba still run on Lisp? I can&amp;#x27;t find out with some quick searches.&lt;p&gt;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?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vindarel</author><text>Before this list, people said &amp;quot;Sure CL is used in production, there&amp;#x27;s Google and uh… Autocad&amp;quot;. Now, we collect companies that we hear about. Nothing &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; nor exhaustive, of course. You can still complain, but not for the same reason ;)&lt;p&gt;BTW this one is the list they are based on: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;azzamsa&amp;#x2F;awesome-lisp-companies&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;azzamsa&amp;#x2F;awesome-lisp-companies&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lisp-lang.org&amp;#x2F;success&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lisp-lang.org&amp;#x2F;success&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lispworks.com&amp;#x2F;success-stories&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lispworks.com&amp;#x2F;success-stories&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Lisp?</title><url>https://github.com/naver/lispe/wiki/6.16-Why-Lisp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iLoveOncall</author><text>&amp;gt; There is this list &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have so few that you can maintain a list, it kinda proves OP&amp;#x27;s point.&lt;p&gt;Also as an addendum to his point, what about projects being written in the last decade or two?&lt;p&gt;Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976...</text></item><item><author>Davidbrcz</author><text>Emacs is the prime example of a lisp project&lt;p&gt;HN itself is (was ?) Written in lisp if I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken&lt;p&gt;There is this list
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Racket&amp;#x2F;scheme are lisp, you&amp;#x27;ll have to include them as well.</text></item><item><author>ctrlmeta</author><text>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.&lt;p&gt;Compare with Rust and Go. Rust and Go devs write articles evangelizing Rust but that&amp;#x27;s not all we see. We also see posts about so many useful Rust and Go projects too.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;t give a damn what language the project is written in.&lt;p&gt;I searched &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;lisp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;lisp&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;p&gt;I know Reddit was written in Lisp but it isn&amp;#x27;t anymore. So that&amp;#x27;s a bummer.&lt;p&gt;Does Roomba still run on Lisp? I can&amp;#x27;t find out with some quick searches.&lt;p&gt;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?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>medo-bear</author><text>&amp;gt;If you have so few that you can maintain a list, it kinda proves OP&amp;#x27;s point&lt;p&gt;OP didn&amp;#x27;t really make a point. He just said that he would like posts about lisp being used in production&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Also as an addendum to his point, what about projects being written in the last decade or two?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a niche language so it&amp;#x27;s pretty pointless throwing lists of all CL projects in production at people. Instead I suggest you say what domain interests you and maybe someone who worked in your domain will be able to give a more meaningful response&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976...&lt;p&gt;Wow I forget how old my operating system is given how &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; it feels and that to this day nothing even comes close to it</text></comment>