@jbowen @RL_Dane @aja don't get me wrong, I think lisp has a lot of interesting properties, but also a LOT of this stuff has been noticed by other programming languages and features like first-class/higher level functions, powerful macro systems, etc. have been ported.
Of course you can't match the code as data/data as code levels of lisp given its structure but it also has downsides.
But still a highly admirable language, just not the magical be-all and end-all of programming.
The wise person realises that there is no such language.
And as for the rust fanboyisms, and I speak as somebody who, from the outside in, admires the aims and apparent successes of the language and wants to learn (when there is time...), it just strikes me as absolutely typical new language hype. I saw it with go and even js, yes js, with node's emergence, and python and for a while ruby... just part of the life cycle :)