While some will disagree to an extent, I partially judge languages & tools on their amount of usage. A robust community for a "bad" tool will see improvements

While some will disagree to an extent, I partially judge languages & tools on their amount of usage. A robust community for a "bad" tool will see improvements made, and solutions for problems quickly disseminated. Lisp is just not used enough for it to be the best language or the most useful tool.