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I had exactly the same experience (minus reading the book). Often, I'd just see the function signature and no further explanation. I do realise that it takes a lot of time and effort to build up extensive docs, but it happened enough that I put it down and started looking for another Lisp that compiles down to a binary.


I'm curious, which Lisp did you end up choosing?


I'm still looking around, but Owl is a frontrunner.


If the bigger runtime isn't a deal breaker, maybe look at Racket.


Racket has great documentation but unfortunately even its creatures have moved in to Rhombus which is a non lisp.


Have you tried Rhombus?

It feels like a lisp - just without the S-expression syntax.

Also, having Rhombus doesn't mean Racket is abandonned. Far from it. Rhombus is built on top of Racket - and has gained a few nifty features in the process.


Not so sure anyone is using Rhombus besides the few people working on it.


That's always the case for new languages :-) Language adoption takes time.

Besides Rhombus is still in the integration phase

https://github.com/racket/rhombus/discussions/521




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