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18:01:22
moon-child
looked at lispworks prices because I was curious. They charge you separately per platform??
19:19:36
edgar-rft
moon-child: you mainly pay for consulting and maintainance and probably there's one person per platform
19:21:28
moon-child
(and: no way do they have one maintainer for 32-bit freebsd and another for 64-bit freebsd)
20:06:51
mcoll
yeah, it's a bit sad, I need to spend (* 800 3) just to be able to target linux, windows and mac, as a "hobbyist"
20:08:05
mcoll
I understand it's a commercial platform, that's fine, I'd be willing to pay 800 for all three platforms, but I can't justify paying just 1600 just to be able to cross compile (actually not even cross-compile, you need to compile on the target platform)
20:09:38
mcoll
the $400 license if I understood correctly doesn't allow generating an executable, so that's not that useful either if I want to go beyond running some code locally
20:11:07
mcoll
I actually like the "pay a full license and the software is yours" model a lot more than eternal subscription, but I can't really justify it having to pay 3 licenses :(