[fayten]

I have spent a lot of time in the PL space and I just cannot wrap my head around the love of Racket. I absolutely love the innovation that comes out of the community though! The gradual types system work, nanopass, embeddable DSLs are all fabulous so I like to keep tabs on what they are cooking up.

I recently picked up Essentials of Compilation by Jeremy Siek, perhaps his book and lectures will make something click for me.

In the meantime Julia has been my happy medium for a “lisp”.

[pjmlp]

You might also want to have a look into Dylan.

It was the first mainstream attempt to an ALGOL style Lisp.

https://opendylan.org/documentation/index.html

Pity it didn't went down well at Apple.