Been writing elisp in Emacs for a couple of years now.

Emacs is an amazing piece of software and its heyday lisp was revolutionary. These days though I don’t see what it offers over other general purpose languages.

> Emacs

But that's a software made in Lisp for Lisp. The fact that it also works for other purposes doesn't change the fact that it's a "technology for the sake of technology" product, not "technology for the sake of goals".

Not sure this makes any sense. Not sure what emacs does could have been as easily done in other languages.

GNU Emacs wasn't written for Lisp. It was developed as an extensible text editor. Its extension language was also the implementation language for a large part of the software. Much of the application domain of GNU Emacs has nothing to do with Lisp. People edit their files with it or integrate with tools.

AutoLISP is used as the main scripting language for AutoCAD, a popular CAD software used worldwide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD