Half of the reason Lisp never caught on is that other languages have become better and added many of the Lisp features. First-class functions especially are is the killer feature you can't live without anymore once you tasted it.
The other thing that pg keeps hammering on about is Lisp Macros which I am not well versed enough to properly say how good of a feature they are. The alternatives most other languages have are much less powerful, but at the same time it seems that macros are very... abstract-y?
Modern software design thinking says that abstractions should be avoided when possible because they make the code harder to grasp for people not familiar with the abstraction on top of making the code too rigid and hard to modify once new requirements come in.
The alternatives to Lisp Macros like codegen, method annotations, Rust Macros. Are all much less powerful and usually harder to create, but maybe that is a good thing.
The other thing that pg keeps hammering on about is Lisp Macros which I am not well versed enough to properly say how good of a feature they are. The alternatives most other languages have are much less powerful, but at the same time it seems that macros are very... abstract-y?
Modern software design thinking says that abstractions should be avoided when possible because they make the code harder to grasp for people not familiar with the abstraction on top of making the code too rigid and hard to modify once new requirements come in.
The alternatives to Lisp Macros like codegen, method annotations, Rust Macros. Are all much less powerful and usually harder to create, but maybe that is a good thing.