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Re:A Tour of Lisps by galaxyLogic on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:27PM (#39184203)
Because of habit. There is always a cost in trying to learn something new, to the level you are on with some other language and it's tooling and libraries.

Programmers who program in some language for a few years realize they are still learning more about it, all the time. Therefore they know if they switched to another language it would also take them a few years to attain the same level of mastery.

And then there is similar inertia with an organization that has lots of code in some specific language already.

Re:A Tour of Lisps by colingw on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:40PM (#39184313)
Yes, it's more than just about the language itself, as I describe here: https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/software-dev-langs

For some people, community signals are very important. Massive conferences or raw number of libraries, etc., indicate some inner quality of that language's ecosystem that they value.

Re:A Tour of Lisps by galaxyLogic on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:39PM (#39193087)
Nice link, holistic viewpoint!