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We are traveling down this road. We've implemented Clasp (https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp.git) - an implementation of Common Lisp that interoperates with C++ and uses llvm as the backend. On top of this, we built Cando (https://github.com/drmeister/cando.git) - a computational chemistry programming environment for designing large molecules. The end of our story hasn't been written yet.

Clasp could be used for a lot of other things.

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To add to cutting-edge (& open source) scientific applications, Rigetti Computing uses Common Lisp for their quantum optimizing compiler [1] and high-speed quantum simulator [2].

[1] https://github.com/rigetti/quilc

[2] https://github.com/rigetti/qvm

And one of the most serious and cutting edge graph databases, Allegro Graph, is a Common Lisp software.

The engine that does the core stuff at Grammarly is also a CL program.

DrMeister is an example of how an advanced hacker uses cutting edge tools to get things done.

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