I have used Common Lisp and Clojure, both at a novice level (so take this with a grain of salt).
I really appreciate Clojure's concurrency / STM mechanisms. I think they're very well thought out and pretty straightforward to use. Additionally, the ability to use libraries from the Java ecosystem is really, really, really nice.
Common Lisp has some really nice things as well (for the purposes of this post, I'm referring to SBCL). I have a very deep appreciation for the flexibility of CL - being multi-paradigm is one of its charms, and it feels like the most flexible language I've ever used. When I first started messing around with CLOS, I immediately hated every other object system. Cells is pretty awesome too, although I hear it's being ported to Clojure right now.
I also really like that all the libraries are also written in Common Lisp; although it may just be my preference for "turtles all the way down".
Clojure wins from a deployment perspective; CL wins from a tooling perspective.
I would say there is a definite trade-off between the two, but as it stands today, they are both very solid choices.
I really appreciate Clojure's concurrency / STM mechanisms. I think they're very well thought out and pretty straightforward to use. Additionally, the ability to use libraries from the Java ecosystem is really, really, really nice.
Common Lisp has some really nice things as well (for the purposes of this post, I'm referring to SBCL). I have a very deep appreciation for the flexibility of CL - being multi-paradigm is one of its charms, and it feels like the most flexible language I've ever used. When I first started messing around with CLOS, I immediately hated every other object system. Cells is pretty awesome too, although I hear it's being ported to Clojure right now.
I also really like that all the libraries are also written in Common Lisp; although it may just be my preference for "turtles all the way down".
Clojure wins from a deployment perspective; CL wins from a tooling perspective.
I would say there is a definite trade-off between the two, but as it stands today, they are both very solid choices.