I love Lisp and Prolog the languages and I went there first -- the issue always turns out to be either (a) they make hard stuff really easy, but stuff that shou

I love Lisp and Prolog the languages and I went there first -- the issue always turns out to be either (a) they make hard stuff really easy, but stuff that should be easy really hard, and (b) IMHO nothing even comes close to the .Net ecosystem when it comes to debugging tools, libs, etc. Clojure+Cursive comes closest, but the JVM world is a bit of a turn-off for me -- maybe I've been away from it too long, but it just seems a bit clunky. (And of course, reified generics, value types, etc., aren't available in the JVM.) The meta-programming story isn't as good as in Lisp/Prolog of course. JS (as others have said) an acceptable Lisp and has some advantages for the type of work I'm doing -- my problem with JS (and Typescript) isn't the language, but the run-time environment of Node, which makes things like true parallel programming a PITA and incurs serialization overhead between workers.