I'm just wondering if there isn't already some large infrastructure in the Lisp world, which could have been reused. Something like CLASP was especially written

I'm just wondering if there isn't already some large infrastructure in the Lisp world, which could have been reused. Something like CLASP was especially written to seamlessly interoperate with LLVM. Sometimes working with an existing system is difficult, but sometimes it can help both projects. Anyway, Dale looks like a cool project.