What do CRUD apps have to do with Lisp macros? The points are disconnected and points are introduced with no evidence or logic to back them.
The only thing I can gather is this guy is about to become a billionaire, because he has found a way to rid the world of spreadsheets and CRUD apps... apparently with steel mills.
I try to think the best of people. With no code to Loper OS that I can find and a writing style that perpetuates lisp elitism using peculiar analogies to the Industrial Revolution without any evidence that this elitism is warrented--I use lisp, I like lisp but it's one tool in a bag--I find it hard to believe that Mr. Datskovskiy is serious. Surely this is brilliant satire?
> without any evidence that this elitism is warranted
What kind of evidence would you accept?
And if you won't accept it from R. Gabriel, P. Graham, P. Greenspun, and other "household" names, why should the rest of us bother sweating to assemble a watertight case for your wastebasket's eyes?
Code. Every author takes on himself the onerous to justify his claims. I am familiar with the works of the authors you mention; they present a good argument that lisp is a fine language for fine works. It is an entirely different argument to assert that, merely through the use of lisp, you will revolutionize the world.
That, as I read it, is the claim made by the original author. It is that claim which has gone unsubstantiated, for years. The rest of you--incidentally, no need to use exclusionary language: we are all friend here--need do nothing. Mr. Datskovskiy has some code to deliver. A bootloader in two years is no accomplishment, though Mr. Datskovskiy has excelled in punditry in this period.
If you actually read the blog (unbearable ordeal, I understand) you would know that Lisp (in available incarnations on available hardware) is not enough:
Let's see how much of an OS and hardware architecture you can design in several years - without using a single line of code written by another person. Starting with the NAND gate - because that is where you will have to start if you truly intend to avoid recapitulating the mistakes of the past three decades.
There was no sequel to the bootloader - I have been occupied with reverse-engineering the bitstream format of a major brand of FPGA (no naming names) in order to dispense with the proprietary x86 toolchain (and eventually with the abomination called Verilog.)
Publishing incremental progress in bite-sized chunks is vastly over-rated. It wastes everyone's time and contributes to the proliferation of hideously ragtag systems reminiscent of "Junkyard Wars" (aka much of the software industry.)
Punditry, on the other hand, is a relaxing and inexpensive hobby. The hosting bill for the past year of the blog was around $30.
Most of my time is spent working on unrelated efforts which I am not at liberty to make public. Currently, they leave precious-little time and energy for my long-term (think lifetime) project.
Feel free, of course, to imagine that I am an idler sitting in an armchair drinking the days away, if it makes you happy.
Clearly you are a man of strong opinion. You are also needlessly rude and insufferably self-important. I apologize that you took my critique so personally, without, of course, apologizing for the critique itself. May you succeed in your ambition.
> I have been occupied with reverse-engineering the bitstream format of a major brand of FPGA (no naming names) in order to dispense with the proprietary x86 toolchain (and eventually with the abomination called Verilog.)
I sincerely hope you succeed. Verilog needs to be killed and replaced with something saner.
The only thing I can gather is this guy is about to become a billionaire, because he has found a way to rid the world of spreadsheets and CRUD apps... apparently with steel mills.