Hi John,
"Is it just me or does Lisp seem more popular and feature rich on the Linux side? "
Yes, I think the reason is that Unix is a lot older than Windows , from the early 70s and in the 80s already starting with the X Windows graphical environment, and of course Lisp is older than Unix -- so mainly for windows one has to translate existing Lisps. (which is still somewhat problematic for SBCL ).
I only know Corman Lisp being developed for the Win OS. (
http://www.cormanlisp.com/) , but it may be based on PowerLisp for the Mac.
From the MS side, there has been no interest at all concerning Lisp (they followed the popular line of the moment that every computer is equipped with a basic interpreter/(compiler) ) -- while the classical editor on the Unix systems, EMACS is written in Lisp and interactive with Lisp, and on their turn the intrest in BASIC form the *nix side is also very low...
btw Lisp already did a kind of JIT in 1960's (fed with IBM punch cards)
it's something as
(define progA (read-punch-cards sourceA))
(define progB (read-punch-cards sourceB))
.
.
(define ActionA (lambda () (eval progA))) ;;; this does the trick other languages couldn't do in those days , they just read/ran the code of the cards in sequence.
best, Rob