Thanks for sharing your experiences, it's a highly constructive
thing.

Comments:

> -- performance sucks and this needs to be worked on (4.5 pages per
>    second is nothing to write home about),

It's surprising to see such bad performance.

Is this with or without bundling? How many requests does your average
page make?


> -- common lisp still lives in a pre-unicode world,

I've hardly had any problems with charsets, and I definitely think
your statement is overly generalizing.

In my experience SBCL's Unicode support is superior to that of
many other languages and their implementations.


> -- I can't figure out what the performance problems are because the
>    SBCL profiler doesn't work for me,

Have you tried older SBCL versions by now?


> other limitations:
>
> -- presentations are severely limited because they are not widgets,
> -- views are cool, except when you run into their limitations (see
>    above),

Saikat has made interesting advances here, but I'm not sure
whether he will finish them.


> -- weblocks is sprinkled with english user-visible strings, which is a
>    huge problem,

I have been delayed here but I suppose a proper solution will enter
-dev this month.


> -- I found scaffolding to be completely useless in real-life
>    scenarios. I don't have a single scaffolded view left.

We've already had that discussion at some point, so I'll be short
about it:

Scaffolding is mainly a useful tool for prototyping which explains
why you haven't got any scaffold views left.

Its usefulness for production is further limited by the (transient)
i18n problem.


> -- the idea of rendering HTML to a stream isn't necessarily a very good
>    one, as you can't render out of order, and juggling string streams
>    isn't always what you want to do,

Got an example, or a more detailed scenario explanation?


> Oh, and a hint. If you ever work with a designer, you'll have a huge
> problem explaining why your pages are not just huge database-filled
> templates and why you want the same widget to look the same (or close)
> on every web page. Tell him your widgets are Photoshop "smart objects"
> and observe the light bulb above his head. Had I known this, it would
> have saved me days of explaining.

That's really funny!

  Leslie


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