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I really enjoy writing lisp but the ecosystem of libraries is a barren wasteland.

Try to find a TLS library for Common Lisp that doesn't rely on openssl, for example. Last time I looked the most mature library was marked 'experimental'.

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This is the double edged sword of particularly extensible customizable languages is that they invariably won't produce a robust ecosystem of packages that can compose with each other in the manner of pip/npm/crates

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