I like to think of Lisps as human-scale development platforms.
Because of the amount of power one person can wield using the tools provided by the language, you often don't need multiple developers to build a project to meet a specific need.
Obviously there are much larger projects like GNU Guix which need *many* developers, but I'd argue that most things an individual needs could just be simple self-authored programs.
Lisps enable greater computing freedom by maximizing personal agency.
@daviwil Unpopular opinion: there are no measurable productivity gains from using a “lisp”. If lisp programmers would be more productive on a claimed scale (2-3x of average programmer) lisp would run the world, because the economics would be too juicy to ignore. On a large scale even 1.5x would be a huge improvement and advantage.
@ringtailringo @daviwil IMHO, Lisp is very good for prototyping new applications because you can choose between different programming paradigms, and compose them. You can choose also between different run-times. Hence, you have a lot of freedom and power.
If you are working in a domain using main stream languages, where there are maintained libraries with good abstractions and paradigms, then the benefits of Lisp are less clear.
