Comment by jshen
15 years ago
"How much of that still applies if you take away Rails"
Why no rails in lisp? I think the essay gives a good answer to that question.
15 years ago
"How much of that still applies if you take away Rails"
Why no rails in lisp? I think the essay gives a good answer to that question.
I have no idea what Rails actually does, but I recently wrote a web application for a school project in Common Lisp, using just libraries (Hunchentoot, LML2 and Postmodern mostly) that aren't really meant to work together in any significant way, and I can't imagine the programming of the application would've been made any easier by using any sort of "framework". And I only wrote one macro if I remember correctly. So perhaps in some sense Lisp doesn't need "rails", good libraries are enough. Anecdotal, I know.
this explains it all ;)