No, not "at the same rate". I wish people would stop linking Paul Graham posts as if they're gospel. In the very real world of running an engineering team, network effects matter, and only in 2015 is there a Lisp (and I don't say this as a "hater" or any of the other easy ways to dismiss someone, I like Lisp and my first collegiate language was Scheme and I've used GNU Guile in multiple projects) that can approach the same value prop as Java when those network effects, the ability to just raise your head and find a sufficient solution to almost any problem that isn't business critical and many problems that are, are taken into account.

That Lisp is written for the virtual machine originally written for Java.

I wish people would stop saying that Lisp is not suited for the real world when there are billion dollar businesses built using Lisps (other than Clojure).

It is 2015, please let us stop the FUD at least now :)

PS: I love Java and use it for my day job. Just a few days back I was reading about AutoValue and Immutabiltiy and wishing that Java had more power that would make these hacks unnecessary. I am not saying Lisp is the greatest, but Java definitely feels like assembly when you reach the edges and one has to wait for years to get updates.

There are billion-dollar businesses built with PHP, too. I wouldn't use that, either.

I don't like Java. I don't like Java at all. (I prefer Clojure or Scala, depending.) But I recognize why it is where it is, and Paul Graham saying Paul Graham things doesn't really change reality.

Reality is not black and white.