>The issue doesn't seem to be performance; it seems to still come down to being too eccentric for a lot of use-cases, and difficult to many humans to grasp.
Lisp is not too difficult to grasp, it's that everyone suffers from infix operator brain damage inflicted in childhood. We are in the same place Europe was in 1300. Arabic numerals are here and clearly superior.
But how do we know we can trust them? After all DCCCLXXIX is so much clearer than 879 [0].
Once everyone who is wedded to infix notation is dead our great grand children will wonder what made so many people wase so much time implementing towers of abstraction to accept and render a notation that only made sense for quill and parchment.
Lisp is not too difficult to grasp, it's that everyone suffers from infix operator brain damage inflicted in childhood. We are in the same place Europe was in 1300. Arabic numerals are here and clearly superior.
But how do we know we can trust them? After all DCCCLXXIX is so much clearer than 879 [0].
Once everyone who is wedded to infix notation is dead our great grand children will wonder what made so many people wase so much time implementing towers of abstraction to accept and render a notation that only made sense for quill and parchment.
[0] https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/numbers.html#work...