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Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
A short essay arguing that LLM-written code makes the feedback loop the bottleneck, and that Common Lisp shortens it best: an image-based runtime that hot-swaps functions without restarts, a debugger that pauses instead of crashing so an LLM can fix and resume, and code written as lists, which makes macros possible.
5 min · 1,038 words
Lombok is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records
Swaranga Sarma, a Java developer who has used Project Lombok for about 15 years, rebuts common arguments against it (weird bugs, compiler hacks, Records making it obsolete, future JDK breakage) and explains why its benefits still outweigh the costs, with delombok as an easy exit.
4 min · 1,007 words