{"by":"winter_blue","id":14622552,"kids":[14622818,14624831,14626791],"parent":14619888,"text":"It's a bit inaccurate of them to present the results of a 17-year old paper (published in 2000), as empirical evidence that development time in Scheme is shorter. These days there are plethora of language choices on the JVM, and if I were devloping a multi-platform app today, I would personally choose Kotlin along with the Intel Multi-OS Engine:<a href=\"https://software.intel.com/en-us/multi-os-engine\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://software.intel.com/en-us/multi-os-engine</a><p>Part of my motivation to prefer Kotlin over Clojure (the most popular LISP on the JVM langauge?) is that I am a huge proponent of static typing. Large programs written in statically typed languages are orders of magnitute <i>more readable</i>, more maintainable, easier to understand, and far less error-prone, than programs written in dynamically typed languages.<p>The recent surge in popularity of dynamically typed languages like JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc, had been a source of horror and frustration to me. It feels like a huge segment industry is throwing away decades of advancement made in programming language research, and instead of moving to languages with more advanced type systems, they're abandoning sound typing altogether (shudder).","time":1498250194,"type":"comment"}