Way back when the web was barely out of its nappies, grey-haired coders could be found in the odd dotcom, singing the praises of Lisp, evangelic and crazed in a way that only grey-haired coders can be. And we would push them aside, dismissing their fanatic fervour and opting instead for the relative straightforwardness of C, C++, and eventually Java, Javascript and PHP. And we got away with it too, and all was well in the kingdom of code.

But now it seems there’s a wee paradigm shift – back in the direction of languages we once rolled our eyes at… Continue reading →