try elixir. It has a lot of the same semantics but the tooling is great and consistent. the libraries are descent and the developer experience is one of the best I've ever used.
You can model a lot of problems similarly to clojure. you get immutable structures, agents and a very freestyle ecosystem for getting things done while havign enough opinions laid down to be able to get started pretty quickly
If you are going to reach for a language that runs on the Erlang VM, and you like Lisp, LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang)[1] is a nice choice. And one of Erlang's creators, Robert Virding, created LFE.
You can model a lot of problems similarly to clojure. you get immutable structures, agents and a very freestyle ecosystem for getting things done while havign enough opinions laid down to be able to get started pretty quickly