You see, Show HN is usually for toy projects. Something bigger could be Launch HN ;)
I guess people really like building Lisps, glad to see their infectious energy. But I do get your opinion, it sort of just is like a homework problem, not particularly noteworthy (except for the first couple of times it was done).
So where does that leave us? Everything has been done before, so if we judged these projects too harshly, then there wouldn’t be anything left.
For me personally, seeing a new lisp always brings a smile, it’s a certain continuity once can rely on in our ever changing discipline ;) A rite of passage to read SICP and then implement a Lisp and show it to the world :-)
Why even the site founder started writing his owns lisps ;)
I guess people really like building Lisps, glad to see their infectious energy. But I do get your opinion, it sort of just is like a homework problem, not particularly noteworthy (except for the first couple of times it was done).
So where does that leave us? Everything has been done before, so if we judged these projects too harshly, then there wouldn’t be anything left.
For me personally, seeing a new lisp always brings a smile, it’s a certain continuity once can rely on in our ever changing discipline ;) A rite of passage to read SICP and then implement a Lisp and show it to the world :-)
Why even the site founder started writing his owns lisps ;)