> Is there even a reason to try evolving Elisp into something else? Instead,
> you can cherry-pick the features you want. With cl-lib you get almost CL.
> With dash.el you get your "new cool lisp". And so on.


The big benefit I see is being able to replace the lisp engine with a more
standard one, and thus benefit from performance enhancements / bugfixes /
etc from the other engine.

Philippe