Yes, Clojure is cool.
Yes, LFE is a thing that exists. Yes Elixir is Lisp-adjacent.
Yes, any of those would give me access to a larger ecosystem and the resources of a well used, well supported VM.
I may be an idiot (it's been said), but I'm not a stupid idiot. I've ruled each of those out for good-ish reasons.
And what would those reasons be?
Clojure is a tougher call. For this project it might be good.
However, I want to include some CLI scripts … and the JVM adds deployment complexity for those.
ClojureScript is tempting, but I don’t see a great story about the server piece for rapid web app development there.
In the long run, CL is a great option. My theory is that it’s a place I could go if/when I’m up and running in another Lisp.