Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp | Hacker News

A Hacker News thread revisited *Let Over Lambda* and argued that Lisp macros let programmers extend the language itself.

Examples like CL-PPCRE, ORMs, threading macros, and async/await were used to compare Lisp’s flexibility with feature work in other languages.

The discussion emphasized that Lisp users can build DSLs and compile-time code generation in library code instead of waiting for language updates.

That’s why macros remain a standout advantage of Common Lisp and Clojure over languages like C#, Python, and Java.