Leave out one parenthesis and your program doesn’t compile, i.e., exactly the same failure mode as almost any other language.

This isn't even worthy of Reddit

reddit was originally written in Lisp.

I mean the parent comment, not TFA

>Leave out one parenthesis and...you miss Venus?

You won't, since Lisp editors automatically keep parentheses balanced.

I've read that they use Matlab which suffers from the same issues

Mentioning MATLAB in the same context as lisp is almost blasphemy