[mdhughes]

I spend most of my time now in Chicken Scheme http://call-cc.org/ and it's very productive, has a ton of libraries ("eggs"), and makes nice, fast native binaries. Scheme's right on the edge of ascetic discipline and productive tooling, where so many languages are much too far either way.

Racket's weird, not quite a Scheme anymore, tons of libraries but they're often hard to use, and the object system infected too much of it. And performance is poor even with Chez underneath, there's just too much stuff on top. It's a better teaching tool with the tutorial sub-languages than a production language.

I can't work in CLISP, it's like scavenging a junkyard for parts where some work, some haven't for 30 years. Some people love that experience.

Strong typing (also in Typed Racket) isn't going to improve anything, but it's good for marketing to enterprise people.