You will see that a few people ask: why care in the face of such impressive native code compilers: Steel Bank, Clozure, and Embedded (although maybe ECL is shor

You will see that a few people ask: why care in the face of such impressive native code compilers: Steel Bank, Clozure, and Embedded (although maybe ECL is short for something else; ironically they also needed a new maintainer as the previous guy became busy): porting and bootstrapping. https://www.common-lisp.net/~bmastenbrook/new-sbcl/porting.html https://www.common-lisp.net/~bmastenbrook/new-sbcl/porting.h... With CLISP that worked on ARM, I am not sure how much slower it would have been to port SBCL to ARM architectures, which is less <1 year of usable, even though CCL had it for years (and why I started compiling CCL using the AUR mechanism on Arch Linux prior to using SBCL in the official repos, for later playing with RPi stuff). So, thanks for the awesome Lisp, and thanks to you guys specifically because it is niche and thankless with so many jokes about the Lisp/CL community. Even on HN, you can hear the mumbling when people post Lisp articles. (hail (clisp))