<i>&quot;It&#x27;s so damn hard to do anything with tweezers and glue that anything significant you do will be a real achievement. You want to document it. Also you&#x27;re liable to need help in any C project of significant size; so you&#x27;re liable to be social and work with others. You need to, just to get somewhere.&quot;</i><p>Oh is it time already for another &quot;C is for idiots&quot; thread from Lisp supremacists again?  If Lisp fanboiz were slightly less busy ridiculing the rest of the world over how stupid everyone else is, they might even have had some time to pay attention to silly things like performance and tooling. That might help the adoption a bit more than the supercilious rock throwing that is almost exclusively the tone of every single article&#x2F;post from Lisp lovers.