[rodrigobellusci]

> allow tiny teams to manage large domains

Is that a virtue of the language (Clojure/lisp/any other) or a virtue of the 5 experienced programmers?

I ask because I’ve never delved deep into any language of the lisp family but I have seen that small experienced teams tend to produce good work regardless of the stack they choose. My guess is the recipe for good outcomes is: experience with the chosen stack + experience working together + small-ish team.

[roenxi]

The technical influences of language are, theoretically, very small. As far as I can tell anything can be built in anything (evidenced by the remarkable number of great applications written in JavaScript of all languages).

But Clojure is a language that supports [0] that sort of team better than Java or Python (I won't say Rust or Go because it isn't really a first choice for systems programming). The Clojure community also has a cultural expectation that teams will be small and highly skilled, for obvious reasons.

[0] I don't see how this sort of statement could ever be anything other than opinion, so I won't try to justify the assertion.