I agree, the "emacs problem" is more or less solved by the advent of ELPA, along with external package repositories that mean you don't have get your code into

I agree, the "emacs problem" is more or less solved by the advent of ELPA, along with external package repositories that mean you don't have get your code into emacs to get it widely disseminated. Emacs Lisp is still Emacs Lisp, but it has closures now, so who cares?