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Having experience with many IMO it's all about value added. There might be concurrency, message passing (Janet) od global scope isolation (Fennel). Personally I had difficulty getting into Fennel, but no problems incorporating Janet into my flow even though the author is the same. I'm not a fan of hygienic macros though.

I would add Clojure to the modern Lisps, too, which I find the most feature rich (even though had much more blast writing Janet).

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> I would add Clojure to the modern Lisps, too, which I find the most feature rich (even though had much more blast writing Janet).

Yup. Clojure may not be the most lispy Lisp but it reaches: it works on top of the JVM (with super easy Java interop), it transpiles to JavaScript and I also use it to write script using Babashka (GraalVM/AOT native Clojure interpreter which starts in milliseconds, avoiding JVM startup time [notoriously slow for regular Clojure programs]).

Being able to share code between Clojure and ClojureScript is really sweet.

Clojure(Script) / Emacs (CIDER) / eglot (LSP client for Emacs): life is good!

I know the homoiconicity purists hate the additional braces in Clojure, but I consider the literal vectors and hash tables a pretty big win over `#()` and the mess that is dealing with hash tables in CL.

"homoiconicity purists" is probably the wrong term, as Clojure is homoiconic. Probably "Lisp purists" would fit better.

For CL hash-tables I can recommend serapeum's dict:

    (dict :a 1 :b 2)

(it's an 'equal HT)

With toggle-pretty-print-hash-table it will pretty-print its content, readably.

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