Ultralisp: A fast-moving Common Lisp software distribution
Slightly tangential, but I wish some Lisp would make a serious comeback and challenge mainstream languages. For this purpose, libraries are essential. So better tooling would help, and that's why Ultralisp and Quicklisp are interesting.Clojure is very nice. I have used it for several projects. But sometimes I would prefer not to rely on Java libraries so much, and cleaner stack traces.Racket may get some critical momentum now, with the whole merge with Chez.I don't have high hopes for a Common Lisp implementation, as the ecosystem has become too fragmented and stagnant. But I wish I could be surprised here. Shen introduced some great ideas to make a powerful static typing an option in Lisp [1].[1] http://www.shenlanguage.org/