> Common Lisp is not good at being pretty out-of-the-box, it's not good at minimalism, and it's not good at prescriptive or dogmatic programming styles
These things help you learn to program, but they do not help you program.
At some point the box is open, at some point your problems are big and nobody else has done them before. It is in this moment that CL is good, and perhaps better than anything else.
> There's just... a lot of content.
That's some of the stuff that helps you program, because if you didn't have it and you needed it, you'd have to write it.
> no singular approach to learning it works for everyone.
So what? "Everyone" is your competition. Why do you care what works for them?
These things help you learn to program, but they do not help you program.
At some point the box is open, at some point your problems are big and nobody else has done them before. It is in this moment that CL is good, and perhaps better than anything else.
> There's just... a lot of content.
That's some of the stuff that helps you program, because if you didn't have it and you needed it, you'd have to write it.
> no singular approach to learning it works for everyone.
So what? "Everyone" is your competition. Why do you care what works for them?