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Clojure has got pretty nice tools for web development (both backend and — with Clojurescript — frontend). It’s definitely out there in some places.

Well, the original context here was about comparing python to fortran, which also doesn't fit this "competitor" criteria. It's an apples to oranges comparison, sure, but that's the way this whole discussion started. At least Lisp is roughly the same age as fortran, which gets at the root assumption that python is an improvement over older languages.

Python and Lisps do directly compete as the preferred introductory language for university computer science classes.

In this decade?

Not even MIT teaches lisp anymore.

>Not even MIT teaches lisp anymore.

That's their loss.

Yep. https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Courses-using-Racket

Lots of universities teach Scheme, particularly Racket. Although Python is more popular, even in that domain.

Well, Facebook is trying to make OCaml happen for web development (ReasonML). Not sure if they're succeeding, though.