No.<p>You just happen to be on a forum written in a Lisp that self-selects for Lisp aficionados and stories about Lisp. Hacker News isn't really a good signifier of trends at large.
I hope not! If it becomes popular someone will wreck it by putting it on the jvm, replacing some of the parens with brackets, or something like that, creating an Algol-like syntax, adding some silly syntax to mark the macros, like an @, or something. Or even writing whole new programming languages on top of it. If any of that happen, I’ll have to go back to APL.
Nope. The more a few individuals go out of their way to glorify a language on HN, the less relevant the language usually is. Nobody writes glowing posts about C/C++ and yet those languages absolutely dominate the software the world runs on.
Selection bias? Have you been learning lisp recently?<p>I've been playing with Emacs lisp so I'm naturally drawn to clicking on anything lispy on HN. But I haven't noticed it elsewhere.