I, too, am basing the libraries claim on others' opinions. I quit CL because I found the system too complex to fully grok, and what 21st-century technologies I

I, too, am basing the libraries claim on others' opinions. I quit CL because I found the system too complex to fully grok, and what 21st-century technologies I needed were not standardized (see: concurrency). I would've been stuck either a) only able to use one implementation, like SBCL, or b) trying to roll my own half-assed implementation of a notoriously-huge language. There is a very nice chunk of CL that is good at what it does, is fast as hell, and nice to code in. But there is so much cruft attached!