> - you want to integrate new members in your team faster. Python is easier to learn than lisp. I'm not so sure on this point. I've been writing Python for ju

> - you want to integrate new members in your team faster. Python is easier to learn than lisp. I'm not so sure on this point. I've been writing Python for just over a decade now, with a year or so of Ruby thrown in for good measure. At a previous job I was asked to implement an authentication service in Clojure. It took me longer to understand the Clojure ecosystem than to learn to actually write the code. In ~3 weeks I went from having never seen Clojure to having a complete (if minimal) application that authenticated users against third parties via OAuth and issued JWTs. I'd agree that it would be much easier to onboard junior-level developers to a project that's written in Python (or any similar language), but if you're targeting more senior-level people any modern language isn't really going to be a significant barrier. That's especially true for lisps - there just isn't a lot of language structure to learn. Python is a "shallow" language in my opinion - there are only a few layers of complexity between a newbie and complete understanding of a language feature. Lisps are shallower still. >