[karmakaze]

The trend seems to be toward statically-typed languages, with the exception of the adoption of Python being used for data. I also prefer having more problems being found before deploying and running on production data.

Dynamic typing is great for prototyping, early development, and for small teams. If your definition of success is greater than that I would choose differently, or port at a good time early on.

And if someone were to ask me to join a company using lisp, I would hope that it's Clojure, though arguably not a Lisp, is better it that it will vary less between usages. This gives it a better chance of a growing ecosystem.