"The hobby involves Lisp, whose evangelists are so ancient and terrifying that the Rust Evangelism Strike Force declares the entire comment thread a no-fly zone and produces new maps marking the area as lost territory, impenetrable to the faithful." --n-gate back in the day

Lisp probably is more trendy than Rust. It's perennially trendy to gush about Lisp. But trendiness is no measure of suitability to task.