Mika

So 5 times more overhead to guarantee the safety of data, that is x5 more cost cause it’s not like regular people have servers with lots of memory just sitting at their homes.

It’s also much harder to guarantee preservation with distributed archive. Example: torrents with 0 seeders.

What does it have to do with lisp?

Sure it’s not like it has no uses, but it’s something languages have built-in as syntax sugar or operators, and you rarely need to built your own macro for anything.

The most interesting part about Lisp is homoiconicity:

(+ 1 1 2) is literally a list with symbol “+” and 3 numbers.

Which allows to build the most powerful macro possible, manipulating code (with data as a tree-like structures) and changing it into whatever else at compile time.

Now if only there was any good use for macros, this would be the best language 🙃