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> Janet is a clean, modern LISP.

This does seem cleaner. I have some questions though:

  - What about the interactive environment like the one in Common Lisp? It's not enough to only have a "REPL", I think.

  - There are so many Lisp dialects. Is this one going to remain obscure?

  - What's the library situation?

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>What about the interactive environment like the one in Common Lisp?

Never used a "real" Lisp REPL, but Conjure[0] seems like it ticks a lot of boxes.

>Is this one going to remain obscure?

There are only a ~dozen mainstream languages. Once you get outside of the popular zeitgeist, you have to appreciate exactly what you are getting. It takes a lot of dedication to become fluent in a language/ecosystem, so it is no surprise that people are reluctant to switch to a novel platform. Clojure is far more likely to ever become mainstream (owing to the huge JVM ecosystem), but even that seems to have only limited industry penetration.

[0] https://github.com/Olical/conjure

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