[c0n5pir4cy]

I mean if looking directly at the market for job prospects yes, if becoming a good engineer and being able to excel in those roles it's a different thing - at 14 exploring various technologies is not only beneficial but also enjoyable.

Also Lisp is far from an "esoteric fad language", it's been around since the 1960s, has both ISO and ANSI standard dialects, and has some significant usage in industry. Like COBOL most of the companies that use Lisp are using it in specialized situations (I would argue this is similar for most functional languages). I feel like it's not talked about as much as COBOL because for COBOL specifically there is a market demand to maintain legacy systems that outstrips the supply. Because of this the role of maintaining these systems - at least historically - paid very well.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

Maybe the original post should have been prefaced with ‘I know you’re specifically asking about job prospects, but here’s a language without job prospects that I think is cool’. I’m not saying that learning lisp would be a mistake, and not saying op could do with some guidance relating to which languages to learn, but I don’t think the original post is a good way of discussing either and imo is misleading in what it presents. I also don’t think a 14 year old learning to code should start with lisp.