Can you think of some domains where Common Lisp is a better choice than other languages? I have enjoyed Clojure for a lot of things, but I have not really found the features of SBCL useful for the kind of work I do.
For instance, restarts without unwinding the stack are cool, but for a server that's going to be running in production, it's not something I really leverage. I could use conditions to change the context of code called downstream, but I just haven't had a reason to do this yet.
This is an old blog entry about their Lisp history, https://www.siscog.pt/en-us
https://www.siscog.pt/en-us/blog/35-years-of-lisping-at-sisc...
Then you have ITA Software bought by Google, and the reason they have Lisp style guide,
https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.html
Autocad has used Lisp as main scripting language for quite some time, although they also do .NET as well nowadays,
https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2026/DEU/?guid=GUID-037B...
Note that everyone talks about SBCL, but forget that the ones that survive the Lisp machines like experience are LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp,
Which if you want to have a taste how it looked like back in the day, some folks are trying to keep Interlisp-D memory from Xerox PARC alive.
In fact the main reason I hang around Java and .NET as my main tools, is that those development environments have taken many key features from those programming languages and development experience, to the point that where they still lose to them isn't that much relevant.
Additionally, now with AI code generation, the actual programming language matters even less, natural language can be translated to whatever programming language one feels like, at the whim of a Markdown paragraph describing the desired output, assuming it is supported on the model being used.
However it is kind of sad that we lost the last AI wave from Lisp/Prolog to Python, losing good machine code generation in the process.