To be clear, they were far ahead of lisp in the 90s too. The major innovation is probably more societal in these languages. We discovered that they really are

To be clear, they were far ahead of lisp in the 90s too. The major innovation is probably more societal in these languages. We discovered that they really are much better for writing reusable abstractions on the level of the whole community. We also ran into some issues with scaling those abstractions at the level of 10s of thousands of packages and are slowly coming to solve them.