nderstand2grow, over at the Lisp subreddit extols the benefits of the Lisp languages and wonders why it isn’t more widely used in production. It’s a question that all Lispers eventually ask themselves. Despite what people who don’t know Lisp tell you, it really is a better language that provides programmers with virtually unlimited flexibility.
There are a lot of suggested answers in the comments most of which have something useful to say. I subscribe to the cynical answer that other, lesser, languages won in the market place for the same sorts of reasons that VHS won over the technically superior Betamx.
I suppose the AI Winter also helped sink Lisp. It’s too bad. It really is a great language that is much better than its competitors. It’s too bad hardly anyone recognizes that.