Christine Lemmer-Webber
"See yeah I'm sure your lisp is cool but my favorite programming language has *pattern matching* baked in"
*Quietly scoops a handful of earth from the ground, squeezes while concentrating for half a second, a pattern matcher falls out, fully formed*
"God damnit this is why everyone hates you guys"
Christine Lemmer-Webber
For example here's a blogpost where @wingo just drops a pattern matcher out of nowhere and it's not even the main point of the blogpost https://wingolog.org/archives/2011/08/30/the-gnu-extension-language
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@technomancy Yes but your language doesn't need to bottom out in a pattern matcher, and the next time a good idea akin to a pattern matcher is worth exploring, you don't need to extend the core language to explore that idea space
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@technomancy That is why Goblins was based on scheme: exploring a new idea space is easy. Lisp is clay.
But I agree of course that having standard libraries is Good, Actually.
tech? no! man, see...
@cwebber honestly I used to think this too, but after spending decades in Clojure where the fact that it's not baked in means that every time you want to do something halfway decent in a new codebase you have to argue with your coworkers about bringing in a third-party library ... it's just not worth the headache of leaving it out of core
racket made the right call; make it built-in, let everyone benefit
just because it's technically possible to do in userspace doesn't mean you should; it's as much a community/convention/style problem as a technical one
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