Those industrial use lists are way out of date though. Many of the companies don't exist anymore, last I checked. And the presence of companies using Common Lis

Those industrial use lists are way out of date though. Many of the companies don't exist anymore, last I checked. And the presence of companies using Common Lisp doesn't really negate my comment. It certainly has its niches, which is probably what it is best at. But I highly doubt one could convince, at the outset of the project, a company that chose Elixir to instead use Common Lisp, for example. There are lots of companies actively using Elixir. > ps: Python competing? strong disagree^^ I pretty strongly dislike Python, but we have to admit that any language today is competing against it in terms of mindshare, despite several languages being much better designed.