Agreed. I think CL is still an awesome platform. There are however things which can't be affected by packages, without a total rewrite (like Shen). Things like

Agreed. I think CL is still an awesome platform. There are however things which can't be affected by packages, without a total rewrite (like Shen). Things like parametric-typing, and adding synergistic mechanisms with define-compiler-macro and inbuilt optimizations, would be extremely useful.