> No real first-party improvement to the language in almost three decades That sounds like a benefit to me :) However, I think that's due to the general lack

> No real first-party improvement to the language in almost three decades That sounds like a benefit to me :) However, I think that's due to the general lack of interest in Lisp. You can see the C++ community has a similar ANSI standard and updates it every few years. > Massive fragmentation in the compiler ecosystem I wouldn't call it massive. They are pretty consistent, up until things like POSIX and FFI APIs. Let's agree there is some fragmentation. Isn't this still a better situation than if nothing was guaranteed?