Largely because of myths surrounding it, for example parenthesis syntax and lack of editor support. With paredit, you get meta level direct AST manipulation support in emacs that is still light years ahead of any programming IDE out there. I think the other fear factor is you have to think a lot more about how to approach the problem when writing Common Lisp and it requires a more complete engineer due to a smaller library ecosystem. Usually there is one and sometimes two libraries for doing X and if not you’re up for making a library yourself.
I’m attaching an example of how quickly you can write TLS 1.3 by a single person in Common Lisp. At the time I wrote this library most websites still struggled with TLS 1.3 support. The point is that most software creators don’t have the breath and depth of knowledge required to be proficient in LISP if they only posses siloed domain knowledge.
I’m attaching an example of how quickly you can write TLS 1.3 by a single person in Common Lisp. At the time I wrote this library most websites still struggled with TLS 1.3 support. The point is that most software creators don’t have the breath and depth of knowledge required to be proficient in LISP if they only posses siloed domain knowledge.
Links:
https://github.com/mateuszb/tls1.3
If you want an example of expressivity you can take a look at EC crypto with a full NIST test vector set in about 300 lines of code
https://github.com/mateuszb/tls1.3/blob/master/elliptic-curv...