Parenscript Review

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A Common Lisp macro that compiles into JavaScript.

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Pros

Pro
It is Common Lisp

Lisps are easy languages to learn (once you get past the parens) and Common Lisp is a very practical dialect.

Pro
Run almost identically on both the browser and server

Parenscript code can run almost identically on both the browser (as JavaScript) and server (as Common Lisp).

Cons

Con
The syntax may be hard to learn

Being an implementation of Lisp, Parenscript's syntax may seem cryptic and hard to understand for people not used to it. While Lisp has very little syntax compared to other languages and it's generally considered pretty terse, there's still an initial overhead in learning the language.