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_syeu··on Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone encoding problem
I'm a bit the same. I've been writing Racket for a number of years now and looking back at Lisp I see a lot of ugliness that I don't really think I enjoy.

Racket has a nice package manager and module system that kind of works for me, and the documentation is honestly some of the best I've ever used, if not my favorite. Comparatively, I've tried using GNU Guile and found the online documentation to be horrendous, and trying to find online documentation for what's considered to be the "standard library" in Common Lisp still confuses me.

I love seeing people use CL and other Lisp-likes in the wild, and Norvig was a big inspiration for me.