Are there any decent frameworks or web libraries written in Lisp? I really like Lisp but it badly lacks the necessary mind share to do any real damage outside of high end expert systems, general AI and such where they need all the dynamism and really don't care about libraries.
Doesn't help that CLisp basically shakes it's behind at the standard* and SBCL doesn't run on Windows properly as of yet. Then the two proprietary options (Allegro and LispWorks) cost more than a house. If SBCL could be fully ported to Windows it would do a lot to help Lisp (along with some decent bindings to at least one GUI framework). Until there's a decent implementation that works across platforms I reckon it will stay as it is though. A nice idea but not enough work behind it to make it as a useful platform.
The only place you really see a lot of Lisp these days is as an extension language - elisp, autolisp, etc. I think Jax and Dexter used a Lisp dialect as it's scripting language as well.
*nearly every attempt by me to write portable code between Linux and Windows was ruined by CLisp's 'we hate Common Lisp' motive. Required huge amounts of #+sbcl(do this) #+clisp(do that).
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