It's interesting that the PG article is cited. I've always had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand I agree that wanting to use Lisp for a startup is proba

It's interesting that the PG article is cited. I've always had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand I agree that wanting to use Lisp for a startup is probably a good indicator of technical strength (yes I'm saying that people that pick Lisp as their first language are smarter than the average). On the other hand startup financing is all about the hyper growth potential and it would seem to me that basing your technology stack on Lisp could be quite the hinderance. The job market is already tough and finding people with a deep understanding of Lisp to start working on an (assumed) nontrivial Codebase isn't easy. I guess Clojure and "allowing" (or migrating to) Java could be an option? Then again some hypergrowth startups don't need many developers (WhatsApp)