I can't be similarly productive in a language that doesn't have a simple syntax (easy to write) and doesn't allow you to do meaningful live programming.
By the time you've got a major headcount, organizational bottlenecks will render the individual velocity of programming tools irrelevant. Lisp will scale poorly because every language does. It's hard to justify unusual technical choices if there's no benefit. It makes perfect sense that a large organization would eventually drop Lisp.
Every startup is in the game of leverage and thus should keep the team as small as possible. Lisp helps you do that. Once you're over a certain size you WILL pay a huge organizational overhead and there's nothing you can do about it. The more logically monolithic your tech/system is the bigger the price. A lot of work just cannot be parallelized. Most of the things startups are working on tend to be that way.
> Lisp will scale poorly because every language does
I guarantee you that a highly opinionated language like Go scales horizontally better* than a totally unopinionated language like Common Lisp. It's literally why Google spent a bunch of resources developing it.
It's also why Lispers tend to despise Golang, or deride it as a simple language for average developers.
*Requires fewer resources to get a new hire up and running on prod code
I can't be similarly productive in a language that doesn't have a simple syntax (easy to write) and doesn't allow you to do meaningful live programming.
By the time you've got a major headcount, organizational bottlenecks will render the individual velocity of programming tools irrelevant. Lisp will scale poorly because every language does. It's hard to justify unusual technical choices if there's no benefit. It makes perfect sense that a large organization would eventually drop Lisp.
Every startup is in the game of leverage and thus should keep the team as small as possible. Lisp helps you do that. Once you're over a certain size you WILL pay a huge organizational overhead and there's nothing you can do about it. The more logically monolithic your tech/system is the bigger the price. A lot of work just cannot be parallelized. Most of the things startups are working on tend to be that way.