Today's Lisp

If you have been in touch with reality (yes this is /prog):

1. Is Clojure still alive for web application development?

2. What's today's most popular Lisp to develop on? Racket? Clojure? Common Lisp? Something else? Something new?

3. Any Lisp/Lispy translator that translates to JavaScript like Coffee/LiveScript?

4. When will people rediscover Lisp by trying to encode JavaScript programs in JSON? (It does lack a symbol type for that, but let's see if somebody thinks of this.)

1. Is Clojure still alive for web application development?

yes

2. What's today's most popular Lisp to develop on? Racket? Clojure? Common Lisp? Something else? Something new?

Clojure is most common in greenfield projects. I haven't seen a new commercial CL project in quite some time, but legacy ones are still alive. as much as I like Racket, it isn't really used commercially much - the community is mostly hobbyists.

3. Any Lisp/Lispy translator that translates to JavaScript like Coffee/LiveScript?

ClojureScript is pretty good. there's also ParenScript which is a CL implementation, but I've only seen hobbyists and SLWs use it.

4. When will people rediscover Lisp by trying to encode JavaScript programs in JSON? (It does lack a symbol type for that, but let's see if somebody thinks of this.)

my bet is that they won't, at least not yet. Lisps will continue to live on as niche languages, but current momentum is now on typefaggotry so you'll see more stuff like TypeScript and PureScript. maybe a decent typefaggy Lisp will come along and shake things up, but the ones we have now are far from decent (Shen is overly complicated, Typed Racket quickly becomes confusing when you try to make an annotation for something generic and/or variadic)