alt Hacker News> The syntax argument is such a tired argument.
It's repeated a lot because it's true. The collective developer world has decided that LISP syntax is not the preference. Good if you prefer it, but you're the in the overwhelming minority.
Random example i just found via github explore: https://github.com/replikativ/datahike/blob/main/src/datahik...
You probably love it but to me it looks like a wall of text. Sure I can figure out what it does, but it gives me a headache.
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midnight_eclair • yesterday at 4:27 PM
i can link you similarly undecipherable walls of text in rust and zig and c
but i bet if you sat down a junior developer not yet entrenched in any style yet, they'd be able to grok lisp code MUCH faster than the intricacies of syntax of the other alternatives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s not true, unless you have an unusual definition of “syntax”. Lisp basically has the most minimal syntax possible, by design.
To use the right words: it’s not a syntax issue, it just looks unfamiliar to you.