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JoelMcCracken on June 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: LispyScript

Not that you're wrong -- you're correct -- but I want to bring up that this was likely true at the time this was written. LispyScript has been around for a while.

drunkcatsdgaf on June 9, 2015 [–]

First commit for lispy - march 5, 2012 First commit for sweet.js - August 1, 2012

im actually pretty shocked they are that close together.

JoelMcCracken on June 10, 2015 | [–]

I bet they both started around the time CoffeeScript started to get big -- it showed there was a market for compile-to-js-but-almost-js langs.

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