@iska @phnt There are TONS of languages that are literally faster than Lisp. Lua is miles ahead of many languages with JIT support and even just interpreted is faster, while most Lisp implementations might have a generic Bytecode VM at best. Hell, even modern JavaScript has gotten to a good stage with one of the fastest implementations of an dynamic language we have, v8.

Theres no point in caring about age old languages unless you don't have a choice. The work is done. Better derivatives have been made by language designers, and Scheme/Common Lisp has tons of those at your disposal with everything we've learned about language design. There is hardly anything special about Lisp that other languages can't do nowadays, with more clear syntax and better implementations and communities.

The only thing keeping people attached to common lisp is Richard Stallman (who eats shit from a foot and has cancer) who coincidentally cares more about his politics than good code.