I tend to do bottom up repl based development. For reasons that frankly I don’t remember, I compared the experience in Common Lisp to be better. And, I was always put off a little by the stack traces. I donated to Rich for the early development of Clojure, and it is a fine language and ecosystem, but it is just not a favorite language for me.

I gave Clojure another look more recently because of the bindings for the mxnet deep learning library, so I guess I didn’t completely drop it.