Comment by aeorgnoieang

> it's not a great modern language for a lot of internet or IO stuff

I think Clojure is a great language for internet stuff and possibly great even for IO stuff too, depending on what you mean by that. The LISP-iness is probably better for the former but builtin Java interop probably goes a long way towards being pretty-good for the latter.

What exactly were you thinking-of by "IO stuff"? Graphics? Embedded systems programming? I'd think Clojure could be just as good as Java or Python for all of those, tho existing libraries aren't going to be quite as good as C/C++, and Go will probably be better-performing generally.

And there are (because of course there are) LISPs for real-time embedded systems programming:

- [nakkaya/ferret: Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.](https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret)