Meaning it's going far out of it's way to half-write a programming language in j...

cocktailpeanuts · on Feb 13, 2017

But why would you use lisp? I don't get it. No API returns data in a list format.

aaron-santos · on Feb 13, 2017

EDN (s-expressions + Clojure's reader)[1] got a lot of attention when it was announced. It looks like it's garnered some use [2]. I was hoping to find a registered mime type "application/s-expr", but there are some uses out in the wild[3].

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4487462

2 - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22application%2F...

3 - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22application%2F...

bpicolo · on Feb 13, 2017

Lisps aren't limited to lists as data types, you can have anything you want.

Lisp interpreters tend to be dead simple to implement.