I admit that I haven't touched CL in decades and my most recent exposure to Lisp-ish stuff is writing a bit of Scheme and reading a bit of Clojure (maybe some e

I admit that I haven't touched CL in decades and my most recent exposure to Lisp-ish stuff is writing a bit of Scheme and reading a bit of Clojure (maybe some elisp too). I like a lot of the ideas behind Lisp-like languages but I dislike writing in them. Parenthesis, as others mention, start to get unwieldy. I often feel like I'm expressing myself "in reverse", almost like I'm programming in Yoda speak. I mean by that, it often feels like I want to edit/add-to the beginning of a statement rather than the ending of it. Perhaps the discomfort would dissipate with use. But to be honest, I'd rather just grab Python or even Typescript these days for the kind of ease and flexibility where raw performance doesn't matter. And there are other programming languages that excite me more than Lisp (e.g. Elixir, Unison) so my limited free time has plenty of outlets on that front. What surprises me is that Lisp evangelists have this default assumption that their language ought to be entitled to popularity. They have some kind of "if people only knew" mentality, just like in this article, where they assume that the only reason people don't flock to their language is ignorance. Perhaps it doesn't occur to them that people try it out and then leave and never come back.