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		jhgb on May 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: That people produce HTML with string templates is ... Reddit apparently ran away from Lisp primarily because all the servers ran on FreeBSD while development ran on Macs and because at the time they were forced to use different Common Lisp implementations (OpenMCL on Mac and CMUCL on FreeBSD) so they couldn't even test what they were deploying, essentially. Today with SBCL that wouldn't have been an issue.

idlewords on May 26, 2023 | [–]

Right, today there would be some other issue.

kazinator on May 26, 2023 | [–]

Don't be so sure. People who want to develop and sort-of-test with one stack, and then deploy on another, will find a way to do it in 2023.

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