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Cool build!

Quick question - why did you decide to create this bot in Rust, instead of the more popular libraries Discord.js or discord.py? Is there a real performance reason, or did you just want to do it in Rust?

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Yeah, I just love Rust and I like Shuttle (which is used to deploy this Rust project), too! I don't think there are great performance implications here. They type-safety is nice though, and it was easy to embed a Lisp.

Why not, you know, Lisp?

(Also, the examples seem to be Scheme)

If you like type safety, this project would be perfect for using https://coalton-lang.github.io/ so your REPL supported Common Lisp out of the gate.

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