Julia is the spiritual successor to Dylan in many ways: multiple dispatch, Lisp heritage, and a full-power macro system with gensyms and local capture. It's a

Julia is the spiritual successor to Dylan in many ways: multiple dispatch, Lisp heritage, and a full-power macro system with gensyms and local capture. It's a bit type-cast as a language for numerics and scientific programming, a niche where it's enjoying robust success. But as a language, it's fully suited to general purpose programming, providing an excellent experience in fact. The ecosystem for most applications which aren't in the existing niche is somewhat thin, but that's a chicken-and-egg problem. It has solid package management, a good concurrency story, well-designed FFI, and performance-sensitive parts of a program can be honed to native speed by making them type-stable. Slept on imho.