@gosha I've had a go at scheme, racket, and common lisp, but I've only used Emacs lisp and clojure professionally.

Clojure excited me as a lisp I could build a career on

@gosha i learned a bit of CL at some point and then got a Clojure job mostly by luck for many years around 2010.

@gosha I feel like I fell backward in time a bit: clojure -> racket -> LISP 1.5

@gosha Started with whatever the Scheme used in Berkeley’s CS61a in the mid 90s was- I think MIT scheme (a mind-expanding experience!), took a long break wandering the imperative woods, then discovered Clojure from a good friend in 2012 and haven’t looked back. I’ve played with a ton of other dialects but haven’t used any in earnest, aside from a small web service in Joxa(!)

@gosha Nope, I only know Clojure :^)
I'm not even that interested in Common Lisp tbh, but I am interested in things like Jank https://github.com/jank-lang/jank or Fennel or Janet, which are more similar to Clojure than common Lisp

@gosha

Logo -> muLisp -> Franz Lisp -> Cambridge Lisp -> CLisp -> Chez Scheme -> Clojure -> Guile

A bit of Emacs Lisp for minimal Emacs configuration.

Love Clojure but it feels very corporate.

Guile has #Guix to recommend it, and the folks at #Spritely have been working on #Hoot (Guile running on the browser via Wasm) and #Goblins (secure distributed computing using Guile)

Tthese projects make #Guile a really interesting Lisp for me at the moment.

@gosha EmacsLisp -> Guile.

Guess I'm kinda wed to the GNU system!

@gosha I learnt #CommonLisp first, but initially worked in Java for a few years. Then later had the opportunity to go to a place that used #Clojure. And that's what I'm still doing at work. At home, it's still #CommonLisp.

I don't think #Clojure is better than #CommonLisp, but there are things that I miss when going from one to the other.

@gosha Java refugee here, and know no other Lisps.

@gosha One afternoon in 2013, after practicing coding in Scheme, I searched for "pmap" and perhaps something else. I found some results about Clojure, which looked promising. Since then, I've been coding in Clojure. Later, I sought more optimized code for CPU-bound tasks and faster startup time, leading me to switch to Common Lisp. And now, due to local market demands, I'm coding in Python.

@gosha I started with some extracurricular Scheme during university on the recommendation of a professor who taught Java, but would have preferred to have been teaching Scheme or Smalltalk. Then, I used Clojure at work for some data cleansing and loading pipelines, for which I think it's pretty much perfect. Finally, Emacs, then Smalltalk, introduced me to interactive development, I became fascinated with the Lisp machines, and satisfied with Common Lisp with SBCL and SLIME.