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Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser

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110 points jackdaniel | 4 comments | 21 Aug 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.618s | source
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adamddev1 ◴[21 Aug 25 13:43 UTC] No.44972696[source]▶
Ah, in an alternate world where Brendan Eich wasn't pressured by his superiors to make JS more Java-like, we could have had something like this as very normal.

I wonder how much faster that would have pushed the world into FP ideas. While sometimes I prefer the bracket/C syntax, I wonder how things would have evolved if JS was a lisp originally. Instead of things moving to TypeScript, would they be moving to something like typed Lisp or OCaml, or PureScript ?

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1. sdsd ◴[21 Aug 25 19:55 UTC] No.44977298[source]▶
I wonder if, in that world, Lisp would be the boring corporate language, and HN would dream of a world where object orientation (which is clearly superior) never had a chance to leap from academia to the mainstream, and hackers post their niche flavors of Java and Smalltalk here.
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2. jjtheblunt ◴[21 Aug 25 20:52 UTC] No.44977934[source]▶
this article discussing how closure creation is disguised OO (and vice versa) might interest you.

https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

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3. Jtsummers ◴[21 Aug 25 21:11 UTC] No.44978147[source]▶
Even discussed here a couple times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33676959 - November 2022, 64 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363635 - April 2015, 45 comments

4. arethuza ◴[22 Aug 25 14:42 UTC] No.44985269[source]▶
Well, that world would also have CLOS - maybe the AMOP would be treated with the same reverence as the GoF design patterns book... ;-)