[thecombjelly]

I really value long term quality of my code and I highly value simplicity and pretty looking code. In these regards Scheme is a much better choice.

There may be some libs that are in CL but not Scheme, but I actually have found nearly everything in Scheme that is in CL. Although some common real world problems are better addressed in CL related documentation.

...And you really only need emacs (or Vim, etc) and CL, Scheme, whatever installed. Setting up SLIME and all that isn't necessary to get started.