If you’re hoping to use a lispy language professionally, I would suggest looking at Clojure. It’s a much smaller language than Common Lisp and has a very activ

If you’re hoping to use a lispy language professionally, I would suggest looking at Clojure. It’s a much smaller language than Common Lisp and has a very active ecosystem. Leiningen is the standard build tool: install dependencies, run tests etc. http-kit gives you the minimum needed for implementing a web server. There are several key-value stores written in Clojure, but I would stick with SQLite (with the Korma library for nice composable syntax).