There are two languages (families) I fell in love with that I can't use. Lisp and variants (Scheme) and Ada. Joy to work with, joy to write in, yet... whenever

There are two languages (families) I fell in love with that I can't use. Lisp and variants (Scheme) and Ada. Joy to work with, joy to write in, yet... whenever I try to write something more elaborate I hunt the web for libraries or toolchain is lacking this and that. Meh. I still haven't given up, but in the meantime I have come to terms that I am a C programmer and always will be. I enjoy C as well (yeah). Next step would probably be to write core 'modules' in C and glue (think in level above) that in Lisp or Ada. There's also this thing I never quite understood, but it intrigues me, is that some people apparently write Lisp which emits C out, or even assembly.