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Common Lisp (Emacs, Slime) or LispWorks (which has a free personal edition). After using live image based development, going back to the edit, compile, test cycle is like going back to the stone age.

And CL has libraries. See quick lisp. [1]

My own comparison with Python, which I have been using regularly. Python is a toy Lisp with all the adult parts hidden.

[1] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

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ditto. I've used just about every language and IDE out there. Eclipse and Java. C++ with every IDE out there. Javascript. Some niche languages. Everything.

Common Lisp and it's tooling is the best dev experience I've found. Other langs can support live coding, but it's always a poorly supported exotic option that feels like crap compared to SLIME.