That's just the latest in a long list of languages. This is a process that has been going on for nearly as long as lisp has existed - so nearly as long as people have been programming.
Lisp is biding its time as all other languages slowly evolve into Lisps. Eventually, they will all merge and there will be one language and it will be Lisp.
Oh my gosh. When are people going to give up and just admit that Lisp (=lisp-family) just wins? The list of dead contenders for The One True language is breathtakingly long, but it's Lisp that everyone eventually comes back around to. Even in the last decade we went thru PERL then Pyhton and now it's js. And everyone just keeps adding in more and more lisp to their language du jour (d'annee?) until, well, they just give up and build a lisp on top of it, like Clojure or Hy. Please let's just come together and get to where we've been headed for 50 years anyway.
The thing is, will there be a time where people will stop dealing with a concrete specific language to stay at the `lisp` level, or will this keep going on forever ?
So maybe other languages have finally beat lisp at its own game? Makes sense from the wave of functional language features becoming popular in the 2010s.
As languages improve, they keep moving towards Lisp — a story that has been playing out for decades. There is a reason Lisp is called "the final language".
Seriously. I just started looking into Common Lisp last weekend, and if it weren't for the active communities on Reddit and IRC, you'd get the impression that the language was abandoned some time in 2012.
It's just time.
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