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I would also argue that the productivity delta between something like Clojure vs Python or Javascript or Kotlin is not as high as it was between Common Lisp vs C++/Java 10-15 years ago. So the payoff for a risky bet is not as high.

That said I would love to work in a lisp full time. There's just something appealingly elegant about it.





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