I'm starting a new project in Lisp in 2020. That's rolling my own CAD tools for learning hardware development. Lisp makes sense because it's a comfortable envi

I'm starting a new project in Lisp in 2020. That's rolling my own CAD tools for learning hardware development. Lisp makes sense because it's a comfortable environment for interacting with my data. I'll be running the Lisp code "offline" so I'm not worried about runtime aspects like GC pauses and most of my I/O will be generating data for external tools (e.g. KiCad) in their own esoteric formats. Coming back to Lisp it's nice to see that all my favourite software is still available and working fine, and there seem to be more active open source Lisp developers than ever. (Far fewer than Javascript, for example, but that's not my yardstick.)