> infinite malleability is not that helpful in actually building shipping software Infinite malleability is bad in a team, great alone. I have projects in Comm

> infinite malleability is not that helpful in actually building shipping software Infinite malleability is bad in a team, great alone. I have projects in Common Lisp that are backing more traditional websites (contact form backend with a lot of integration and customization built in, google sheets, email etc.). No one's ever seen the code. No one even knows it runs Lisp. But it's there and working, for years on end, and it takes me very little time to make any occasional changes. That said, it's a lot of custom code and syntax I built, so somebody new would have to learn it if they collaborated with me. And they would obviously have to know Common Lisp in the first place. Lisp is great for hacking alone, but I think a company might be more efficient just hiring a couple mediocre Java devs and calling it a day.