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Re:Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming langu... by lispm on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:32PM (#39390143)
It's possible to build teams in the low hundreds. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMVZLo1Ub7M

Siscog, company is 37 years old, 130 employees, 1.7 Million lines of Lisp code. In the planning/scheduling domain for railway companies.

Other example ITA Software, bought by Google for $700 Million dollar. 100+ Lisp developers.

Re:Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming langu... by jjav on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:46PM (#39390942)
> Siscog

This is really cool! Had not heard about them. Thanks!

Nice, so looks like low hundreds of developers may be possible given the right environment.

That said, I don't feel it disproves my impression. If the company is 37 years old, still privately held and still has less than a hundred developers then it is clearly not a company looking to grow fast above all else. So feels like a nurturing environment for Lisp.

Re:Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming langu... by lispm on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:50PM (#39392982)
> looking to grow fast above all else

They may also not need to. They may have enough people working in a productive environment. If you add a Lisp feature to a large code base, it may not take a lot of time to do so, given the possibility of an incremental development style with Lisp (-> changing running applications incrementally).