The mindshare bit is an interesting one.<p>I once read an article [1] that argued Lisp did not reach the same level of industrial popularity as other programming languages due to the fact that Lisp enables you to program in a lot of different ways for different reasons. I&#x27;m admittedly not very familiar with Lisp, and I don&#x27;t know if I fully agree with the article, but it made me wonder if ease-of-collaboration can be considered a useful perk for languages&#x2F;frameworks.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;locklessinc.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;why_lisp_failed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;locklessinc.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;why_lisp_failed&#x2F;</a>