To paraphrase Ansel Adams (who was speaking of cameras), there is no one best language only the best language for the project you're doing. It may very well be

To paraphrase Ansel Adams (who was speaking of cameras), there is no one best language only the best language for the project you're doing. It may very well be that Lisp is the right language for your project. That depends largely on what the project is and what advantage you are seeking from Lisp (or another choice) that helps complete your project and, most importantly, reduces debugging time later since that's where you'll spend 60% of your coding effort. We are building our product with a Lisp back end because it deals with NLP and large bodies of text where Lisp is ideal. The user interface, however, is HTML/JS (Angular) because that language offers much more flexibility for UI design.