If the world put even a tenth of the effort into training Lisp programmers as it does into training Java programmers you would have no trouble marshaling an army of Lisp programmers.
They run into the problem that programming is inherently hard, and no amount of finagling with the language can change that, so you have to have someone on every team with actual talent. But the team can be made of mostly idiots, and some of them can be fired next year if LLMs keep improving.
If you use Lisp for everything, you can't just hire any idiot. You have to be selective, and that costs money. And you won't be able to fire them unless AGI is achieved.
That may be, but since Lisp programmers are easily 10x as productive as ordinary mortals you can pay them, say, 5x as much and still get a pretty good ROI.
> you can't just hire any idiot
Yeah, well, if you think hiring any idiot is a winning strategy, far be it for me to stand in your way.