> the Lisp languages never took off after the 2000s > I see no "enlightment" in learning Lisp > the Lisp family is almost dead You're conflating popularity w

> the Lisp languages never took off after the 2000s > I see no "enlightment" in learning Lisp > the Lisp family is almost dead You're conflating popularity with value, and the two are very different. Moreover, you're missing the fact that most of the features that were invented in Lisps (like GC, lambdas, first-class functions, and REPLs) are now wildly popular, with every modern language having taken several ideas from Lisp. Furthermore, you don't seem to understand that a language is not the sum of its parts. Python, Java, C++, and the rest of the languages that have been grafting on Lisp features do not have the unifying design philosophy that Lisp does, which is precisely the "enlightenment" that you don't think exists. Finally, by the nature of "enlightenment", you can't see or understand it until it hits you. As someone who is stubbornly refusing to learn Lisp, you by definition cannot judge whether or not you might have a galaxy-brain moment if you attempt to learn it. (it's perfectly possible that you'll learn it and have no moments of revelation, but you can't even tell whether or not that will be the case until you try)