I believe this was built with macros:
Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp by taking great ideas from Haskell, Scheme, and OCaml.
https://coalton-lang.github.io/
Not well known, but surely good software engineering adding features. Lisp* is called the Programmable Programming Language for a reason.
pg wrote a treatise on Lisp macros (free download):
https://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
(add to that something about great power - great responsibility and not holding it wrong)