Came across this quote from the “Naggum-mine”:
An uncomfortable answer is that the Common Lisp community is hostile to creativity. People argue that Lisp is dead, but it is the Lispers who are dead. With a few exceptions, people who use Lisp have given up, and they only require, they do not provide.
Many Lisp programmers demand that sockets and multiprocessing should be standardized before they want to use it, which penalizes creativity like nothing else. Many Lisp programmers think it sucks to interface with other (inferior) languages, some in general, some because it isn’t standardized, some because they fail to understand how software is organized and want a perfect world.
Abacus Noir 