but the lack of a real ecosystem is really starting to hurt my progress.
What suggestions do you have for lisp-1 -> lisp-2? While I prefer lisp-1 + syntax-parse, I'd rather have.. quicklisp. quicklisp is life. the quicklisp must flow.
I personally would recommend clojure + cider + emacs for an excellent ecosystem and tooling.
Too true, that's my main complaint about ql since day 1. Give me a simple way to define a ql-repo hierarchy and I'll be fine with it. I did invest a few hours maybe 3 years ago but realized that it's too much work (research and patching) to allow for that. Recent developments (author pitching for money in ql context) make me even more worried :(.