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I've had enough exprience working with CL to know that this is is a legitimate concern of the author's. Mahmud is right, in that the Lisp ecosystem is much better today than it used to be, but it's still very sparse and less organized than those of most other languages.

It's not that hard to get a quick webapp up and running with Hunchentoot, but there is a lot more generally that you'll need. Cliki and CL-Directory are actually pretty good resources for finding out what's available, but they don't tell you, with any clarity, what's useful, what's maintained, what's finished, etc. You kind of need to figure out that by checking. It can be a bit of a pain.