[mark_l_watson]

This looks like a rewrite of this web site? I don’t remember it looking so visually appealing.

I would hope that every programmer has a “happy language” that they most enjoy using. CL is my happy language, both for personal projects and also since around 1982 I have probably been paid to use Common Lisp for about five of the last 39 years.

This may sound sacrilegious, but in modern times I steer people newly interested in Lisp languages towards Racket. There are also many great Scheme implementations.

For my own development I use LispWorks Pro, which is pricey but extremely well supported. SBCL is probably the best open source CL system, and I often use it side by side with LispWorks.

[exdsq]

How do you find Lisp work, out of interest? Especially for an experienced professional without commercial lisp experience?

[vindarel]

There are some jobs. We see announces on /r/lisp, Twitter, LinkedIn… sometimes very informal ones. Some companies still pick up CL, for instance: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ (it's possible that Ravenpack is still hiring?). A good way is of course to learn CL and have something ready to show. Some announces don't require a (commercial) Lisp background though, they seek high-level engineers. Another way is to use CL for yourself, at current job or not. There's plenty of space for that. I use it for new services, instead of extending a Python aging monolith (DB access, FTP connection, XML parsing of a big dataset, a simple web frontend,…). I have even been doing live reloads for a year, installing new libraries while the app is running, and it's been a joy so far. I found one bug (with Sentry alerts of course), because I used = where a number could be nil. So I use `equal`. I am happy, I am productive, deployment is easy and the app is fast.

[mark_l_watson]

I enjoy developing in Lisp but the number of jobs are smaller than Python/C++/Java/etc.