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SBCL is a de facto standard, and relying on it is fine.

Clasp is nice, but SBCL is fast enough that it's mostly extraneous unless you really need to talk to c++ code.

I’ve often wondered why SBCL hasn’t been used as the basis for some of the newer lisps and lisp-alikes. It’s performance is pretty great, and is worlds closer to Clojure than the JVM.

We've been implementing Arc over SBCL. It's called Clarc. I can't seem to find time to work on it.

There's a bit more description here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21550123

Qi and Shen are pretty interesting. Qi compiles to CL, and Shen compiles to a tiny Lisp subset quite easy to port. But Qi license is quite bad. I think Shen adopted BSD, but is still quite niche or close to abandonware.

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