> I will check out your courses to see if I can learn something from you.
Thanks. Don't hesitate to reach out and give feedback. If you're into web, you might find my newer (opinionated) resource helpful: https://web-apps-in-lisp.github.io/
> Listen, I like Lisp. But Lisp has this weird effect where people, I think in an effort to boost the community, want to present every tool as a viable answer to their problems, no matter how unfinished or difficult to use.
I see. On social media comments, that's kinda true: I'm so used to hear "there is no CL editor besides Emacs" (which is literally plain false and has been for years, even if you exclude VSCode), and other timeless FUD. Articles or pages on community resources (Cookbook) should be better measured.
> listing every editor under the sun.
there's an Eclipse plugin (simple), a Geany one (simple), a Sublime one (using Slynk, can be decent?), Allegro (proprietary, tried the web version without color highlighting, surprising), Portacle and plain-common-lisp are easy to install Emacs + CL + Quicklisp bundles…
some would add CLOG as a CL editor.
BTW the Intellij plugin is also based on Slime. Not a great development activity though. But a revolution for the Lisp world if you think about it. Enough to make me want mention it twice or thrice on HN.
> tried them extensively
emphasis on "extensively", so no. SLIMA for Atom/Pulsar was decent.
> ECL… slower…
true and for this I've been measured, but looking at how vend is doing would be very interesting, as it ships a very small binary, based on libecl.
Thanks. Don't hesitate to reach out and give feedback. If you're into web, you might find my newer (opinionated) resource helpful: https://web-apps-in-lisp.github.io/
> Listen, I like Lisp. But Lisp has this weird effect where people, I think in an effort to boost the community, want to present every tool as a viable answer to their problems, no matter how unfinished or difficult to use.
I see. On social media comments, that's kinda true: I'm so used to hear "there is no CL editor besides Emacs" (which is literally plain false and has been for years, even if you exclude VSCode), and other timeless FUD. Articles or pages on community resources (Cookbook) should be better measured.
> listing every editor under the sun.
there's an Eclipse plugin (simple), a Geany one (simple), a Sublime one (using Slynk, can be decent?), Allegro (proprietary, tried the web version without color highlighting, surprising), Portacle and plain-common-lisp are easy to install Emacs + CL + Quicklisp bundles…
some would add CLOG as a CL editor.
BTW the Intellij plugin is also based on Slime. Not a great development activity though. But a revolution for the Lisp world if you think about it. Enough to make me want mention it twice or thrice on HN.
> tried them extensively
emphasis on "extensively", so no. SLIMA for Atom/Pulsar was decent.
> ECL… slower…
true and for this I've been measured, but looking at how vend is doing would be very interesting, as it ships a very small binary, based on libecl.