I’ve only played around with lisp a little bit, what about it makes it a solo programmer tool?
All this is a reflection of the so-called Lisp curse, the fundamental problem with Lisp -- its great strength is simultaneously its great weakness. It is super-simple to customize Lisp to suit your personal tastes, and so everyone does, and so you end up with a fragmented ecosystem of little sub-languages, not all of which (to put it mildly) are particularly well designed.
He doesn’t specifically say here though that this makes Lisp a solo tool. I can’t find a source for that right now unfortunately.[1] http://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/lisping-at-jpl-revisited....