[hoodoof]

>>> It's more mainstream than the $NEW-AWESOME-JAVASCRIPT-FRAMEWORK.

This sentence doesn't make any sense.

"Mainstream" means used alot - widespread acceptance.

Lisp is #33 on Tiobe after Cobol, Foxpro, Fortran and Ada. How you can compare that to the takeup of the latest JS nframeworks I don't really understand.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

21 SAS 1.372%

22 Dart 1.306%

23 D 1.103%

24 Transact-SQL 1.075%

25 ABAP 1.065%

26 COBOL 1.055%

27 (Visual) FoxPro 0.932%

28 Scala 0.923%

29 Fortran 0.879%

30 Ada 0.787%

31 Crystal 0.756%

32 Erlang 0.733%

33 Lisp 0.690%

34 Awk 0.662%

35 Lua 0.648%

[criddell]

I was just looking at that same list. I'm surprised Lua is that low considering how many applications embed it.

[Jtsummers]

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-defi...

The reason those rankings are (mostly) useless is that it's based on search engine hits. An active, effective community that for whatever reason doesn't generate a million and one blog entries a month will not perform as well on the index. This makes it very useful for indicating fads in programming, but not reality.

[Jach]

There's also http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2017/03/17/language-rankings-1-17... which uses # pull requests on github with # of tags on Stack Overflow. Another biased methodology for sure, but it paints a different picture.