Why Janet? | Hacker News

Hacker News users discussed Janet’s choice of familiar names like first, do, fn, and def instead of traditional Lisp terms.

Commenters compared Janet’s conventions with Scheme and Racket, noting that several Lisp-family languages already use more conventional syntax.

The thread then broadened into familiar criticism of Lisp parentheses, especially how they can hurt readability in long numerical expressions.

Overall, the discussion centered on Janet’s attempt to make Lisp-style code easier to read while revisiting old debates about parentheses and notation.