Re: [Chicken-users] Unfair question: best Lisp for web development?

[Jeremy Sydik]

I haven't had any problems with using Chicken for web development  
(mind you, I'm using a
custom framework instead of spiffy and I'm not using XHR so YMMV --  
the ajax egg does
provide access to XHR though).   As far as "which lisp", I'd say to  
just pick one to work with
and, since you are most comfortable with Chicken, use Chicken.

The only counter I can give is that, if your intended app needs some  
access to a library
that's already implemented for you in another lisp and you'd rather  
not reimplement
yourself, you MIGHT consider the other lisp.  That said, I've needed  
PDF generation
and a replacement SHA-1 for projects and had very little problem  
linking into
libharu via FFI for the PDF and writing a basic implementation of  
SHA-1, so even
that isn't necessarily a compelling reason.

The big lesson at the end of the day, I think, is that remembering  
that you're better
off with lisp than without lisp -- spending your time worrying about  
which lisp you
SHOULD BE using is time that you're not spending WRITING lisp and  
getting
more skilled with the lisp you ARE using.

--Jeremy

On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> I'm thinking of starting a .com; probably not an especially Web 2.0
> sort of one, but maybe with some Ajax involved.  I seem to be more
> comfortable with Lisps than anything else.
>
> Are there any compelling reasons to choose a Lisp other than Chicken
> (my current best-known) for that sort of thing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Robin
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