Personally I do all my personal coding in CL but it's a matter of taste. Another word for "moribund" is "stable" and that can be a good thing. But it really i

Personally I do all my personal coding in CL but it's a matter of taste. Another word for "moribund" is "stable" and that can be a good thing. But it really is mostly personal preference. And you might want to add Clojure to your list of languages to consider. The reason I like CL is that I find it is a local optimum impedance match for my brain in language design space. But that is at least in part because I have been using it for 35 years so I am used to its quirks (of which there are many). But it also has lots of really nice features, some of which are still unique to CL and which I find indispensable to my coding style. Generic functions are at the top of that list, and a close second is the macro system.