There's now a long thread about what would make Lisp more successful. Nice idea, but it quickly turned into a good example of why this will never happen and why Lisp rarely fascinates new developers. I do not know if the term "lisplaining" exists already, but the thred is mosly lisplaining now. #lisp
@amoroso Mansplaining about lisp. Basically, the lisplainer adds nothing to the conversation about democratizing lisp, he just tells that in order to really understand and use lisp, people should do precisely what he does, because his own way is The Way.
This is nothing new under the software development sun, but it’s not the best way to add new popularity to a language. At least, this is what the thread started for.
Aside from the attitude I'm not sure what the practical alternatives are. If it's better to adapt Lisp to what a wider audience expects or is comfortable with, this is basically what already happened over the past three decades. I mean the new languages that incorporated many Lisp features and can be, and effectively are, used by a wider audience.
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