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by pharmakom 1180 days ago
I don't think that proves anything. If we had "JavaLisp" in the browser instead of JavaScript then Lisp would be very popular. Besides that, Python is harder to manipulate than many non-Lisps, such as JavaScript and Go.
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Python became popular without being the 'web language', the Lisps didn't.
Curly brace languages are more popular again.