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should use it's standardised it has a stable history and it's quite easy to implement and due to the repl you can develop fast and cost efficient. Furthermore it runs nearly everywhere abcl, sbcl, ecl ... you name it.

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@m3tti yeh but they use msft and those expensive Java c# python mess, i do not understand it, what the hell

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@m3tti not sure about the "easy to implement" part. CL is quite big and e.g. CLASP has been trying to support all of it for some... ten years now?

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@aartaka @m3tti clasp was conformant from day zero since it was a fork of ecl. It struggled with hard bootstrap from llvm and c++ interop.

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@jackdaniel @m3tti oh I see, sorry for misinfo!

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@m3tti It does have a tendency to terrify procedural-only developers, though.

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@KatS yes but in lisp you can do every paradigm

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@m3tti Even when you really shouldn't :)

I know that, and you know that, but...

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@m3tti No standard cross platform GUI?

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@NortherlyGoose you could use abcl or qt i guess and several others. But anyway the web has become the std cross platform guy

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@NortherlyGoose @m3tti if Government needs that maybe they should make one that suits their needs and maybe release it to the public?