Racket is an exceedingly mature and stable implementation, with vast library support, of a language I have learned I don't really like (after writing my PhD dis

Racket is an exceedingly mature and stable implementation, with vast library support, of a language I have learned I don't really like (after writing my PhD dissertation program in it). It is still Lisp and that makes it miles ahead of conventional languages, and the library support is really nice, but there are a lot of difficult to pin down subtle philosophical points encoded in Racket by its designers that I don't like as much as, say, Common Lisp—the ones I remember are I couldn't figure out how to get a REPL in the context of a module, I don't like static typing in a Lisp and the module system in Racket encourages that, and I dislike Racket's native OO system but there were a few others. Clojure is more comfortable to me for some reason. Which is not to say that you should not absolutely go for it. Fantastic environment all told and if you aren't coming to it with preconceptions then it's probably a better place to start learning than something as baroque as CL.