Clojure taught me lisp where CL failed. Turns out that Scheme and Clojure as a lisp-1 are great for learning.

Switched to SBCL for the faster star-up times. Now lisp-2 also feels more comfortable.

Since you mentioned SBCL, I thought this announcement about ECL and WebAssembly would be worth mentioning for those who are curious. It was announced just last month: https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/posts/Web-ECL-Grant-Announcement... (2025-07-29)