The author almost immediately writes off Common Lisp for lack of &quot;frictionless access to a rich ecosystem of code written in the same language as your software&quot;, then recommends Clojure. Most of the ecosystem you have access to in Clojure is, in fact, not built in Clojure, and most Clojure libraries were&#x2F;are wrappers around Java or Javascript.<p>Footnote 1 makes no sense, suggesting that the only way to get access to &quot;a bunch of other useful code&quot; is to embed it into a C program and that understanding your dependencies is somehow easier in Javascript.<p>In reality, Quicklisp[1] offers effortless access to over 1200 libraries and programs. It&#x27;s nowhere near the 200 thousand packages in npm, but the overall quality is good and these libraries cover a surprisingly large number of things.<p>The post tries to display Clojure as &quot;Lisp, but with access to open source&quot;. Clojure is a fine programming language, but it&#x27;s also completely different from Common Lisp. CL has high quality optimizing compilers performing extensive type checking, a powerful object system, easy access to C libraries, etc. If you need Java interop, you can just use ABCL[2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quicklisp.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quicklisp.org&#x2F;</a>
[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;abcl.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;abcl.org&#x2F;</a>