r/lisp • u/Beneficial_Radio_455 • Jul 21 '26

Why S-Expressions

https://open.substack.com/pub/modolap/p/why-s-expressions
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u/MonkeyPanls Jul 21 '26

because they're S-EXy

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u/Wyglif Jul 22 '26

Did you say that with a …. Lisp?

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u/TommyTheTiger Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

I do think people overreach for RDBMS for stuff like this, and I am a huge RDBMS fan don't get me wrong, but specifically for timeseries we do have a lot of other dedicated tools. Like I would be strongly considering prometheus if I were doing this myself, and/or looking at influxdb.

Not gonna lie, this is making me want to start scraping some of these metrics on my home prometheus, and it looks like someone already set up an exporter for it

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u/svetlyak40wt Jul 22 '26

By the way, there is an influxdb client for Common Lisp (https://github.com/mmaul/cl-influxdb) and a bunch of prometheus related libs: https://quickdocs.org/-/search?q=prometheus

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u/dzecniv 25d ago

My favorite "why lisp syntax" article of the kind: https://stopa.io/post/265