I checked their home page, and I can't quite seem to find the value proposition of Shen. It looks like it's a Lisp implementation? Why would I want to spend time learning/using this over JS/Go/Java/etc.?<p>I'm not trying to make any statements about the usability or anything, I just literally cannot find enough details about what Shen is beyond some books on Amazon or vague home page claims to make any judgements about this.
Where can I find a hello world for this language. I didn’t see it in the docs linked above.<p>Update: I found this link helpful.<p><a href="http://www.shenlanguage.org/shenin15min.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.shenlanguage.org/shenin15min.htm</a>
For those who want a good overview of the power of Shen, see this Strange Loop talk: <a href="https://youtu.be/lMcRBdSdO_U" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/lMcRBdSdO_U</a>.
I came across this and had not realised that there are quite a few implementations of Shen now. The ones certified to the latest version are CL, Scheme, Wasp, Erlang and JavaScript<p><a href="https://shen-language.github.io/#downloads" rel="nofollow">https://shen-language.github.io/#downloads</a>