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flavio81

>What's the most popular Lisp in use today?

At least if based in 2016 GitHub popularity:

http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang....

#1 Emacs Lisp

#2 Common Lisp

#3 Scheme

#4 Racket

Unless you consider Clojure a Lisp (yes it is, and no, it isn't...), in which case #1 would be Clojure, and then the others listed above.

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Why would clojure not be considered a lisp? (I'm curious)

See this subthread and answers by LispM:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207616

There's a website article called "Clojure Sucks" that is written by a Common Lisp user who uses a symbolics lisp machine and has some interesting insight although it is very aggressive.

You can mostly combine 3 & 4 on that list. Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) has moved beyond Scheme in many ways (language features, batteries), but is still exceptionally similar.

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