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Other Lisps (Clojure) don't seem to have this problem, with a variety of great choices.

• rayiner 11y ago
  Clojure can leverage an ecosystem that's mostly built by people who don't write in Clojure.
  • bsder 11y ago
    Um, exactly? I'm trying to figure out if that was a real complaint or a sarcastic comment.
    • ikurei 11y ago
      I'd bet it was neither. It's something that clojure is doing right.
    • S4M 11y ago
      Since Clojure runs on the JVM and has a good interoperability with Java, it's easier to write plugins to for developing in Clojure using IDEs written in Java (mainly) for Java, like Eclipse or IntelliJ.
• lispm 11y ago
  There is little reason to use Eclipse or Intellij with Common Lisp. That's a non-starter. Editors like vim can be used with Common Lisp just fine. Most people I know just use Emacs/SLIME because it's reasonably advanced and can be used nicely via GUI or a terminal connection. Personally I use the LispWorks for editing code, mostly. It has a Emacs/Hemlock-like editor written in Common Lisp built-in. I also use the Clozure CL on the Mac, which also has a hemlock-derived editor built-in. Where Clojure naturally has better integration into the Java ecosystem (Java IDEs, too), Common Lisp has the better IDEs written in itself.