I kind of like the decades of accumulated cruft and I like that Common Lisp code I wrote decades ago still works as-is. More modern conveniences like Quicklisp

I kind of like the decades of accumulated cruft and I like that Common Lisp code I wrote decades ago still works as-is. More modern conveniences like Quicklisp make everything simple and a mellow experience to use. All that said, I also strongly recommend Racket. I just use a small part of the Racket ecosystem: compiler, REPL, Emacs bindings, and sometimes DrRacket. The library and packaging system is simple to get used to and use. Sorry for going off topic: I need to use Python a lot for my own research and projects, and I find Python tricky. Don’t ask me how often I blow away my Python installation, and occasionally even switch between project specific virtual environments and different miniconda environments. Yuck.