miniblog.

Are there any noteworthy lisp dialects that don't have macros? Macros aren't obligatory, but I'm struggling to think of any good lisp examples that lack them.

Shower thought: Smalltalk (and to some extent other OO languages) replace pattern matching with dynamic dispatch. I miss pattern matching in Lisp dialects without a good implementation, but I haven't noticed its absence in Smalltalk.

I picked up an old ES5+backbone project this weekend after working on an ES6/JSX+React project this week. JS has bifurcated into dialects!