This tracks with my own experience, and I don’t believe he is literally saying people of this personality type are medically bipolar. I used Common Lisp for a

This tracks with my own experience, and I don’t believe he is literally saying people of this personality type are medically bipolar. I used Common Lisp for a few years and then switched to Clojure for another four years. At the time, it seemed that Clojure’s ecosystem could overcome the lone-wolf problems that CL faced. In the end, Rich Hickey made it clear that Clojure was his toy that we were lucky to use, and so its ecosystem never took off like it could have. It’s a real pity and a terrible lost opportunity. Since then I’ve gone all in on languages that I don’t particularly like, but whose ecosystems provide such value that the language itself is somewhat immaterial: JavaScript and Python. But I do think about lone-wolfing sometimes, in the context of building new products for myself, If I ever went down that path again, I’d choose Common Lisp over Clojure. Clojure is easier to use, has more libraries, and has JVM interop, but these benefits are outweighed by Clojure’s opinionated restrictions on the language itself. Ultimately, if I am going lone-wolf or nearly-lone-wolf, I might as well use the most powerful language that doesn’t force its opinions on me.