I have 2 questions:

- What is he using now? (Python?)

- Is there a LISP dialect that doesn't suffer from this problem? I can see that from time to time LISP projects start taking off just do die a year later and I'm stuck using Emacs (Lighttable comes into mind)

Clojure and Common Lisp are still around and are quite active. There’s been a lot of cool stuff brewing for both languages recently

It was developer experience that precipitated this fallout, a language usually needs to be growing in user base for the developer experience to improve as people complain and tackle problems they encounter.

The old linked thread had some prominent figure saying “but just do <inconvenient thing>” in response to every issue, if the language isn’t growing, only people accustomed to the inconveniences stick around.

So, I’d say it used to be Clojure, but now I doubt there is one.

> - What is he using now? (Python?)

From the blog:

>> I’ve been writing a great deal of Python, Bash, Awk, Perl 5 for my own consumption