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15:09:51
Colleen
<shinmera> Anyway, all that is to say, if someone did the work to spec out the interface and implement it, I'd be elated ;)
18:36:03
sgithens
shinmera: Sorry to hear about the lower than expected Kandria adoption. I have no idea how it would translate in to money, but I can say that without your huge pile of common lisp libraries, reviving the codebase I work on would have been way more difficult. Without people modernizing things like yourself, fukamachi and others, programming in common lisp today would be suffocating.
18:37:43
Colleen
<shinmera> Well, I suppose I'm not glad to hear that you feel Lisp would be that much worse without my contributions, but I understand the sentiment
18:41:23
sgithens
Well, not really just lisp itself, but the integrations you need to do modern work (and modern graphics work) in it without doing everything from scratch. The usage of cl-opengl and everything built on top it, having 3d-matrices and 3d-vectors right there ready to go, all the tooling necessary to build things integrated into the desktop and web ecosystem that happens to be prevalent at the moment. Without that lisp is just a
18:43:44
sgithens
I don't personally have the capacity or skill to just roll out useful, tested, elegant libraries in my sleep. Without you guys I would be totally screwed.
18:46:44
Colleen
<shinmera> Well, I only had the capacity because I had the privilege to be able to just take my time with uni
21:08:34
Colleen
<shinmera> Shoulda done this a while ago https://github.com/Shinmera/chirp/commit/f7531c2e9b6c0f5b22c511950ec9c734435b00cd
22:27:28
hayley
I had expected Bakerposting to get garbage collected when the free API went away, but it didn't.