RESTAS is written by someone who knows both Lisp and the web really well. It's a good sign when a developer resists the urge to invent a new templating syntax (specially a lisper, come'on) and chooses to use a boring semi-standard, like Google's Closure Template.
RESTAS is MVC, in the loosest sense of the word. The author, archimag, went way out of his way to make the "C" part, the controller, as flexible as possible.
RESTAS created its own module system on top of the Lisp package system. Importing a Lisp package from within an application also mounts that package's controller URLs underneath your app's.
He wrote one of the most authentic clones for Closure Template language. In fact, it generates HTML and JavaScript.
I could go on and on, but to put in a nutshell: the author actually looks at other web frameworks for inspiration, and is not someone trying to bolt an idealized "Lisp way" on top of the web. No continuations, no pretending that the web is a GUI, none of that crap. You want web, you get web: clean, modular, RESTful web.
RESTAS is MVC, in the loosest sense of the word. The author, archimag, went way out of his way to make the "C" part, the controller, as flexible as possible.
RESTAS created its own module system on top of the Lisp package system. Importing a Lisp package from within an application also mounts that package's controller URLs underneath your app's.
He wrote one of the most authentic clones for Closure Template language. In fact, it generates HTML and JavaScript.
I could go on and on, but to put in a nutshell: the author actually looks at other web frameworks for inspiration, and is not someone trying to bolt an idealized "Lisp way" on top of the web. No continuations, no pretending that the web is a GUI, none of that crap. You want web, you get web: clean, modular, RESTful web.