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> you have a std lib, which can interact with many things, you can build UIs, networking libraries and all that.

Racket has all of that: https://docs.racket-lang.org

Common Lisp too: https://common-lisp.net/libraries

Clojure too: https://www.clojure-toolbox.com

(Or you could even just build anything within Emacs with Emacs Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp)

> And I could probably start using any language that is "similar" to these.

Then you probably could start also using any of the Lisps mentioned. Most likely you are just hung up on the surface syntax, which does not take long to get used to.



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