Don’t think the original LISP is used much anymore, but there’s various dialects like Scheme, Racket and Clojure.
Some examples where it’s used, off the top of my head:
Lilypond for when you need your sheet music to be turing-complete. Uses Scheme.
Emacs, for configuring the whole editor. (Has an own dialect, Elisp.)
GNU Guix, which uses Scheme for configuring the entire operating system.
Obviously, you can also use them for general software development. A few years ago, I read of some project that used Clojure for a larger backend service, with the author gushing all over the place.
Some folks are really passionate about the LISPs, but yeah, not terribly popular in the corporate world…
Guix is such a cool idea, but Nix accomplishes essentially the same thing, and the syntax is much more accessible in a post-JavaScript world. Most programmers nowadays aren’t that familiar with Lisp-like syntax, for better or worse.
Don’t think the original LISP is used much anymore, but there’s various dialects like Scheme, Racket and Clojure.
Some examples where it’s used, off the top of my head:
Obviously, you can also use them for general software development. A few years ago, I read of some project that used Clojure for a larger backend service, with the author gushing all over the place.
Some folks are really passionate about the LISPs, but yeah, not terribly popular in the corporate world…
Guix is such a cool idea, but Nix accomplishes essentially the same thing, and the syntax is much more accessible in a post-JavaScript world. Most programmers nowadays aren’t that familiar with Lisp-like syntax, for better or worse.