On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 00:34:12 UTC, sarn wrote:
Scheme is a really nice, elegant language that's fun to hack with, but at the end of the day, if people were writing Nginx, or the Windows kernel, or HFT systems in Scheme, you can bet programmers would be pushing pretty hard for special exceptions and hooks and stuff for better performance or lower-level access, and eventually you'd end up with another C.
Honestly after writing a toy Scheme interpreter, I've come to think much more highly of Javascript.
