The Lisp Curse (2011)
I used to read these kinds of articles with interest, back in my Common Lisp programming days. They would worry me. Back in the day, I would even sometimes participate in language advocacy discussions.<p>These days, I don't care at all — I just write great apps that work (fast). Some code runs on the JVM, some code runs in the browser, some runs in both places. I get to use an impressive set of libraries from at least three different ecosystems (Clojure/ClojureScript, Java, Javascript). I get to use fantastic languages with impressive concurrency support. I deliver applications which customers pay money for.<p>For me at least, Clojure made this kind of writing totally obsolete, in the span of several years.