I vehemently disagree with your premise. Lisp and its ecosystem have been improving through thousands of hours of volunteer work. The Lisp ecosystem is VERY different than it was 15 years ago and is MUCH better. But the standard for what counts as good, in my opinion, has also increased.
I’ve not and never been burned by Common Lisp. I don’t know how you could be burned by it either. I can see how canceling Python 2 could burn someone, but I don’t see how an evergreen standard like that of Common Lisp could. I’m not hurting by there not being a new standard. Functionality is de facto standardized just fine and we live with it just fine. Lisp is like the only language with a useful web-accessible standard. If you ask a Lisper how frequently they visit Stack Overflow or random tutorial websites, you’ll find it’s much less than others.
Lisp isn’t a lost cause. It has outlived just about every other thing out there. It just doesn’t outlive these other things with tons of fervent enthusiasm.
I’ve not and never been burned by Common Lisp. I don’t know how you could be burned by it either. I can see how canceling Python 2 could burn someone, but I don’t see how an evergreen standard like that of Common Lisp could. I’m not hurting by there not being a new standard. Functionality is de facto standardized just fine and we live with it just fine. Lisp is like the only language with a useful web-accessible standard. If you ask a Lisper how frequently they visit Stack Overflow or random tutorial websites, you’ll find it’s much less than others.
Lisp isn’t a lost cause. It has outlived just about every other thing out there. It just doesn’t outlive these other things with tons of fervent enthusiasm.