For a period much earlier in my career (think early 00's) I seriously desired to work in Common Lisp professionally. Through a series of life decisions and othe

For a period much earlier in my career (think early 00's) I seriously desired to work in Common Lisp professionally. Through a series of life decisions and other opportunities, that never really happened. But I continued to work on Lisp projects on my own and use it for various things. I don't consider it a "superpower," and I don't think it makes me 10x more productive or anything like that. Most modern languages have stolen most of the thunder from Lisp (other than macros) so I would be hard-pressed to recommend it for greenfield development. That said, I love working in it. I don't have any illusions that it will make a "comeback" or that I will ever make money writing it (I long ago switched to looking for job opportunities based on the problem domain rather than the toolset), but I continue to use it personally because it makes me happier than any other language.