[nvy]

>Those who still use Common Lisp or some variant of Lisp (other than Clojure), what's your reasoning behind choosing this language over the more mainstream options?

One programmer can be amazingly productive due to how expressive and flexible the language is. I find my "developer velocity" (eyeroll) is much higher in lisp than in almost any other language.

>Or hot code reloading, which sounds like a powerful concept except that companies would rather log and document their codebase.

I think this is a benefit primarily realized during development cycles. You never "CTRL+C, edit, recompile, run". You just recompile the single function or statement and things just keep on trucking. If your production environment is containerized you'd obviously rarely be hot-reloading, but how often are you changing prod, anyway?