the language was outcompeted by java and never recovered. it is less aligned for enterprise development lisp code often takes advantage of lisp’s language fea

the language was outcompeted by java and never recovered. it is less aligned for enterprise development lisp code often takes advantage of lisp’s language features to define DSLs in their projects and don’t document them well. it can be more challenging to figure out how lisp code works than java, which prioritizes predictability and standardization Java is much easier to pick up and be productive with for C++ programmers, which were a major target audience and Oracle put out absolutely insane amounts of marketing at the time java’s built in libraries are extensive and cover more real world needs than what is specified by CL so CL fell to the wayside and lost market share. and with fewer people using it, there have been fewer libraries available for common programming needs