Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp
&gt; I think hardcore Lispers see stuff like a Lisp GUI and natively-graphical Lisp editors as pointless bells and whistles – Emacs was good enough for John McCarthy and it still is for me! – but they really are not in 2021.<p>That&#x27;s almost the last line of the article, but it hasn&#x27;t established any credible argument about why &quot;they really are not in 2021&quot; other than a much longer form of the same assertion.<p>&gt; Summary: You have to get in there and compete with mainstream, play their game by their rules, if you want to compete.<p>1. Why does someone want to &quot;compete&quot; ?<p>2. What would you be competing with?<p>Convincing people that they could &amp; should use Lisp instead of Python or Swift is facing stumbling blocks far, far larger than the user-experience in an editor&#x2F;IDE.