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The author didn't mention racket. Anyway, since the article is a few months old, I went to github and got the new data (as of today):

#20 - Emacs Lisp

#24 - Clojure

#25 - Racket

#35 - Scheme

#36 - Common Lisp

Interestingly, had PLT Scheme not been renamed into Racket, Scheme would probably be the most popular Lisp on Github.

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For whatever reason, Racket has been the lisp that I sort of looked at last. Like many I-want-to-learn-lisp people, I went through a terrible survey of available options. I went through most of Practical Common Lisp, and then found Clojure. Recently, I've found Racket as the result of my wife deciding she'd learn a little programming via the introductory Coursera course taught in Racket.

I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with Racket. Everything from its beginner-friendly environment, to its functional disposition, to the availability of decent libraries, to its research into new areas such as type systems, everything feels very nicely constructed.

The only thing I really miss from Clojure is the syntactic support for maps and vectors, and the pervasive destructuring of said same.

> The only thing I really miss from Clojure is the syntactic support for maps and vectors, and the pervasive destructuring of said same.

What do you mean by syntactic support for maps and vectors?

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